As you may recall, I was in Winnipeg with the Prime Minister—and you and the chair of the committee were there too—for the announcement of our national anti-drug strategy.
I believe this is an excellent approach. Two-thirds of the new money is going into prevention and treatment, which is of course important for those who are unfortunate enough to be hooked on drugs or to have had drugs imposed upon them and who now have an addiction problem. They need help. They need our concern as a society, and that's what the treatment and prevention programs are all about.
But we also have to get tougher with the bad guys, and I'm pleased to see this week in Parliament that we introduced legislation for mandatory jail time for meth lab operators and for grow op operators and for the bad guys in the drug world who are pushing these drugs into our communities. You know, and I know, any urban area...and I come from a rural area, Parry Sound-Muskoka, and we have grow op issues. We have meth lab issues. There's no part of this country that is not affected by this. We need to do more, and that's why our government is acting.