There is currently much controversy surrounding the issue of distributing crack pipes to users in the city of Ottawa. A newly elected mayor rescinded the previous council's policy of providing crack pipes to addicts as a means of reducing harm in the form of Hepatitis C and AIDS. The Liberal provincial government pulled an end around the municipality and reinstated the program to much bleating and spewing of the usual right wing rhetoric from the mayor. Political theater in a city in which that is the popular form of entertainment.