Justice committee  I think that covers it. With this I believe the provisions that will make changes to the CDSA will apply to people 18 and older, but when we talk about incarcerating people, these might also be people's parents and stuff, so there is also an indirect impact on young people throug

Justice committee  As far as I know, yes.

Justice committee  Yes, and this is a problem that we're concerned with. Part of what we push for is that young people, if they are going to make this choice.... Again, this gets into the fact that we can't make choices for our young people, but there needs to be more education about those facts an

Justice committee  You'd have to show me the source.

Justice committee  Sure. And just in response to the last comment on the previous question, those situations are incredibly serious to us. We have lots of members who get involved because of similar situations. What we're arguing is that this legislation will do nothing to prevent those situations

Justice committee  Yes.

Justice committee  Yes, we believe drugs should be dealt with as a matter of public health, with a fringe of the criminal justice system.

Justice committee  People cannot choose to be addicted. I agree with that. What our organization is about is empowering young people through education—through honest education—about the realities of substance uses. It's pretty clear when you look at the facts of drug use that it is dangerous and s

Justice committee  I'm not totally up on the science, but I know there's a mix of social and chemical and biological and--

Justice committee  Yes, if you look at studies on the harms of substance use...CSSDP has presented about the ranking of the harms of drugs in previous submissions on this legislation.

Justice committee  I believe...but you can fill me in on the story.

Justice committee  Sure. I don't know the details of that case. I don't know if they overdosed from one pill of ecstasy or from several pills. This is something we worded very carefully in the statement to read that “one pill”, because based on studies of substances and ingestion--

Justice committee  Thank you. Trafficking under the law, as it has been presented to the committee, can be defined as not only selling but also as giving, sharing, or passing a joint—that's been mentioned a few times, I know. These are all things that would be caught up in Bill C-10 through these

Justice committee  Hello. Thank you for the invitation to appear today and for your time. I work with Canadian Students for Sensible Drug Policy, or CSSDP. We are a national network of youth and student-led chapters that are working on substance use issues. Like you, we work out of a desire for saf