I'd be delighted to add to that.
I think the drug take-back day is very positive. I would worry a little bit that by having it focused by the police this would be seen as a little bit punitive by folks. We've been working with some of the drugstores, as I mentioned earlier—Shoppers for many years has had a policy that they will always take back drugs—putting a positive spin on it: it's not abuse, but just get rid of that stuff, because there's inadvertent misuse of drugs like that.
When we did the announcement at Shoppers for the day last Saturday, I had a chance to talk to some of the executives. They collect hundreds of tonnes of drugs. They dispose of it more appropriately so it's not being flushed down and released into the environment. My understanding now is that more and more drugstores will take them back. Certainly for Canadians, I can relate to this; when my mother died I had bags of drugs. What would I do with them? I walked down to the local pharmacy and asked what I could do with them, and they were delighted to take them back.
It's about having the pharmacist play an educational role with patients who've been prescribed drugs, that when you have unused drugs, just bring them back to us, and with the children of elderly parents, who accumulate a lot of drugs, that this is a very safe place, no questions asked, just bring the stuff back and we'll get rid of it.
I think it's a really important issue that you're bringing up, that we, as Canadians, need to encourage people to get rid of the stuff. It's bad for the environment; it can be misused. Earlier, one of the members said that children do this for parties, but a lot of elderly folks don't know what drugs they have or why they would take that, particularly folks with early dementia. So getting rid of those is just a really good way to reduce the risks to a lot of Canadians.