I would like to remind my colleague, very respectfully, that I know that medication is not taxed in Canada and that if a cannabis product had a drug identification number, of course, it would be tax-free.
The problem today is that an extremely small number of cannabis products have a drug identification number. This means that when the bill is passed, the current problem will not have been solved at all, that is to say that people who have a physician's prescription and go to obtain cannabis for medical purposes will still pay a sales tax. In light of the very small number of cannabis products that have a drug identification number, the situation will be the same after the bill is passed. The bill does not solve the problem in any way.
That is why we must broaden the definition to include all of the cannabis products consumed for medical reasons.