Mr. Chair, we know there's a problem. I don't want to beat around the bush on this. I have enormous respect for our officials. However, when I'm told that this current wording is not the wording that we should get.... I understand that the legislative drafters were working 24-7 to try to get all of these amendments in. This is a problem with the government ramming through legislation. It addresses exactly the point I raised earlier.
We had a piece of legislation that was badly flawed that wasn't fixed last spring. We had legislative drafters working 24-7 to endeavour to fix the hole that was created by bad government action, and I'm being told that the wording is not exact. As a committee, I think we have a responsibility to find the wording, then, that allows us to fix the hole. We all know that 250,000 Canadians are paying an excise tax on medical marijuana that was never the government's intention. We have this problem. We can't skirt around it.
The legislative counsels looked into it and saw “prescription cannabis drug” as the resolution of that to eliminate that excise tax on non-DIN medical marijuana.