Ms Fiona Wilson:

The court injunction was not so much that people have a right to use drugs but that the province did not have a right to prevent people from using drugs in the wake of the exemption from Health Canada. The province is the one that requested the exemption in the first instance. We ended up going back to the province and suggesting it advocate for changes to the exemption, and that is what happened recently. All public drug use is now prohibited again. The only places to which the exemption now applies are private residences, places where an individual is lawfully sheltering, or regulated drug-checking sites or overdose-prevention sites. Those are now the only places where the exemption applies. Otherwise, all public drug use is no longer subject to the exemption. That was the major change.