I would like to know how much work you do, as you work with Health Canada and other groups, looking at the issue of actual demand.
Knowing that addiction is a chronic disease, a medical disease where we look at medical intervention.... Most people who are addicted are not addicted because they lack willpower; they are addicted because—we now know about—the neurotransmitters in the brain, etc., so everyone agrees with the idea of replacement therapy.
My question is this: What are we doing to deal, very clearly, with the demand side? Are you working together with Health Canada and the provinces in a reasonable way to deal with the issue of addiction per se and the medical problem, and how we can treat it and at the same time prevent harm? I simply want to know if you are involved in this. I know the police departments are. But in the RCMP, I'd like to know if you are looking at this from that perspective.
