SAFE INJECTION, ALTERED REALITY

Who needs evidence that a program such as Insite's safe injection
site provides benefits to drug addicts, when it is very simple to
convince the public that the contrary is the truth (Renew Insite's
Licence - editorial, Aug. 27)? It seems as though federal Health
Minister Tony Clement and his colleagues have taken a page out of the
Bush playbook and are now creating their own version of reality, one
in which merely repeating a statement over and over makes it a fact.
Perhaps once the Conservatives take care of the pesky problem of drug
addiction, they can turn their collective mind to stamping out that
ridiculous notion of evolutionary theory.

Andrea Taylor

Toronto