I don't think I'm going to need five minutes, Mr. Chair.
What I wanted to ask Dr. Skinner about is that among all the recommendations that were made, I don't notice one that talks about triplicate prescription. I'm not harping on this because I think it's a cute thing; it seems to have to worked in British Columbia to diminish the amount of prescription drug overdoses.
One of the reasons is that if you prescribe an opiate, every physician on the triplicate prescription must write a prescription. One must go to the college of pharmacists, one must go to the college of physicians, and one must be kept by the physician. It allows for monitoring on how these prescriptions are being written, whether they're appropriate or not. It allows, therefore, an identification of the patient who is seeking opiates and double or triple doctoring. It allows identification of the physicians who are inappropriately prescribing opiates, and for them to be given that, as you say, education, to be hauled out and called up by the college, which says, “Look, you're inappropriately.... Here's what you should be doing.”
That seems to have worked very well in British Columbia. I wonder why this isn't something that other provinces are looking at. It's not a federal thing; it's a provincial thing.
Can you explain that to me?