In 2015, the Conservative federal government passed Bill C-2, the Respect for Communities Act⏤amending the requirements of applications for exemption from the Canadian Controlled Drugs and Substances Act. These exemptions allowed for supervised consumption sites to legally operate within Canada. The guiding principle behind such services is to promote and protect health through a variety of means, such as: reducing incidence rates of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Hepatitis C, and other sexually-transmitted and blood-borne infections; and reducing mortality rates from substance overdose. The reform sought to regulate the exemption application, however, it created an onerous process which made it substantially more difficult to obtain exemptions. The bill was a direct outcome of the ruling of Canada (Attorney General) v. PHS Community Services Society due to the failure by the then Minister of Health, Tony Clement, to grant an extension to Insite, Canada’s first legally-exempted supervised consumption site. Within two years, another bill was introduced in an attempt to remove unnecessary barriers created by Bill C-2. As a result of the swift amendments to Bill C-2, there was no formal evaluation conducted to assess the impacts of this reform. Many opponents of Bill C-2 argued that this legislation made it more difficult to develop new or maintain existing supervised consumption sites and as a result violated the rights of the users of these services. En 2015, le gouvernement federal a adopte le projet de loi C-2, aussi connu sous le nom de la Loi sur le respect des collectivites. Cette loi modifiait les criteres pour la demande d’exemption de la Loi reglementant certaines drogues et autres substances. Cette exemption rendait possible l’operation legale des sites de consommation supervisee, qui visent a reduire les taux de mortalite dus aux surdoses. La reforme avait pour but de reglementer les demandes d’exemption. Or, cette reforme a cree un processus d’application ardu qui a rendu l’acces a ces exemptions considerablement plus difficile. Le projet de loi C-2 est survenu en reaction au verdict qui a ete rendu lors du proces Canada (AG) c. PHS. Le refus par le Ministre de la sante, Tony Clement d’accorder une extension a Insite (le premier site de consommation supervisee au Canada) a conduit la Cour supreme a rendre un verdict qui imposait au gouvernement la codification d’un processus d’exemption formel. Deux ans apres C-2, un autre projet de loi a ete adopte afin de remedier aux barrieres inutiles imposees par le projet de loi C-2. En consequence des modifications rapides au projet de loi C-2, les repercussions de cette reforme n’ont jamais ete formellement evaluees. Plusieurs adversaires du projet de loi C-2 soutenaient que cette legislation violait les droits des usagers des sites de consommation supervisee car elle rendait la creation de nouveaux sites et l’entretien d’anciens sites plus difficiles.