Environment committee  Of course, yes.

Health committee  The updating of Canada's national prescribing guidelines, which I think date from 2010, was one of the initiatives funded out of the 2014 budget. It is very close to finalization. I think it's going through the final peer review process, which is an important last step. There is

Health committee  I'm afraid I have no knowledge of that.

Health committee  I could certainly make an inquiry. How successful I will be, I don't know.

Health committee  Yes. I could pull up the statistics. This comes from the student drug survey, which is now just recently released.

Health committee  Absolutely. It's actually posted online, but yes, we can send the report.

Health committee  I'm not aware of funds beyond all of the existing government programs.

Health committee  To be honest, I don't think I have much to add to what Rita just said. Certainly we are aware of the literature around the root causes of substance abuse disorders. We keep on top of that. I think some of that thinking perhaps is behind the fact that different countries take diff

Health committee  Certainly, within our area of responsibility for first nations and Inuit health, there has been a significant influx of funds to improve approaches to treatment in areas where we are responsible. There's also been a significant influx of funds to organizations like the CIHR to do

Health committee  The problem with the younger people, not exclusively but in general, tends to be more about using prescription medication recreationally that they find in their parents' medicine cabinets. Surveys show that somewhere between 2% and 4% of young people use prescription medication r

Health committee  No, Bill C-2 contained a series of amendments to the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act.

Health committee  That review is ongoing, so I think it's premature to say any conclusions have been drawn yet, but we are assessing the bill, the CDSA portions that relate to the specific provisions on applying for a supervised consumption site, against the experiences we're having now. Over a

Health committee  Thank you for the question. I think it's important to recall that before the amendments to the CDSA, the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, known as Bill C-2—and Bill C-2 was not a stand-alone piece of legislation; It was a series of amendments to an act—

Health committee  —there were a set of published and rigorous criteria that potential applicants had to fulfill. With or without a piece of legislation, there would inevitably need to be some strict guidelines so that the decision-maker had all the information he or she needed in order to make an

Health committee  Surveillance and treatment are two different things. I will say on the surveillance side—and it's no secret that we and colleagues here refer to it—we don't have a terrific system of surveillance at the national level. The development of surveillance systems, I think, is variabl