Good afternoon.
Your question is very good. It deals with what was said previously, in that obviously if someone is prescribed drugs for medical purposes that prescription is personal information about them, and it's information that is regulated under privacy laws in place at the federal level and in the provinces. Some of them deal with the public sector; others deal with the private sector. Certainly in the health environment, information is being created and used by different actors. Some of them are private actors; some of them are state actors.
It does make for some difficulties in that the purpose of such legislation is not necessarily to prevent the sharing of that information but to regulate it for certain purposes. Even though the legislation across the country is to some extent similar and based on the same broad principles, it's not exactly the same everywhere, and each case tends to be treated on a case-by-case basis.
On the use of prescription drugs, there are many circumstances that are perhaps different from others. Obviously you have patients who are law-abiding, who are using the drugs as they were prescribed, and you have others who may not be doing that. In different circumstances the law will authorize the sharing of information, and in others, perhaps not. Obviously that can be remedied by passing more laws, if that is necessary.