Yes, absolutely. Today, already 60% of medical cannabis patients can't afford their medicine because it's not covered by insurers, but it's also because of a very unfair GST/HST that no other medications that must have authorization by a doctor are subject to.
That said, this new excise tax will be applied at the point of production, so the HST will be compounded. It will be double or compounded taxation of a medicine. I think that's the really key thing. Patients, people who are suffering from extremely difficult situations, a lot of the people whom we represent, are on disability. They have no income and they're already suffering. Going forward and taxing them more is going to make that suffering worse.