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

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