Health committee  If I may, I'm going to ask Corporal Chicoine to answer.

Health committee  I'm not sure. Maybe one of my colleagues can answer why the report is not being produced anymore because some of the statistics would still be available. It's the publishing of the report, I believe, that is...when it comes to the statistics part of the report.

Health committee  It is difficult to answer that question. Drugs are diverted using different methods. It is what we call “diversion” in English. Legal drugs become illegal. According to the process that is in place, when we learn that this is going on, basically, we carry out an investigation. T

Health committee  I will turn it over to Corporal Chicoine.

Health committee  We do not really have any statistics on how they obtain the drugs. They use different methods which have already been mentioned. They steal it from their parents' or grandparents' medicine cabinets. In some cases, the drugs are distributed by dealers, which leads us to conduct in

Health committee  The distributors of illegal drugs are not our responsibility, but that of the Canadian courts. The dealers you refer to would certainly be subject to the same charges as those that were already mentioned, that is to say drug trafficking, or possession with intent to distribute.

Health committee  There are no criminal provisions for such cases.

Health committee  I don't have the statistics in regard to that, and it may be a little bit off the subject we're discussing here today.

Health committee  I think the officers in general—RCMP, municipal, and provincial police force agencies—are receiving adequate training. But I think it's something that has to be continuous, because you can never receive enough training. It's not because the training they receive is not good, it's

Health committee  It's available through different means. For example, we have the drug investigator's course that's delivered at the Canadian Police College. Some of the municipal and provincial police forces also offer their own training. For example, Corporal Luc Chicoine, who is here today as

Health committee  Like I said in my opening remarks, enforcement is everybody's responsibility. Education is everybody's responsibility, so definitely making training available to their officers on a municipal level would certainly be a good start towards prevention.

Health committee  The training is not only for officers. It's also a community response with health professionals in the community, especially when it comes to prescription drugs. Obviously they have a role to play as well. Social workers would have a role to play. Different partners would have a

Health committee  If it's a drug that falls under barbiturates or would fall under one of the schedules that Monsieur Saint-Denis is referring to, it certainly would apply under the CDSA. We would investigate the offences under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act. We would likely charge the in

Health committee  I would not have those statistics, I'm sorry.

Health committee  My expert here advises me that it's no longer being published. Those types of reports, as you acknowledged, were being published in 2009. Things have changed since then.