There are no specific rules apparently governing the nature of questions that may be put to the witnesses appearing before committees.
So if I may just continue with this I'll be done in a couple of seconds and I'll go on to my questions.
I would ask the clerk to invite Minister Glavine to submit his remarks to this committee so that members may review his testimony.
I'm new to this committee. I'm not normally a member of this committee. I'm substituting for Dr. Fry, and I find this study quite fascinating actually. So you'll have to excuse me if some of my questions appear rudimentary to those who have been part of the study all along.
I'm trying to get a handle on this notion of prescription drug abuse. I've been thinking about it a lot because of ads that have been running, at least in my province, and I imagine there are ads sponsored by the provincial government about this problem. I really wasn't aware of it in total until these ads started to appear. Now this follows up on these ads.
Perhaps you could explain to me, Ms. Strang, what is really involved. Are we talking mostly about opioids? When we talk about prescription drug abuse I imagine that people aren't stealing cholesterol drugs or what have you. We are dealing with painkillers. I guess that's what it's about.