Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank the minister for the presentation. I've always felt that health is too important for us to play political, partisan games with, so I will start by congratulating the minister on what I consider to be now—in the past, the minister knows how I felt about certain of the Ebola initiatives—a very excellent response, including the vaccine.
The only question I have to ask with regard to that is this—and I'm going to ask the questions, and maybe you can answer afterwards, so that we can get a fulsome answer. Who did you consult with concerning the pause in visas? I know that the World Health Organization and many other public health officials felt that it created a bit of an anxiety in the public when you did that pause because they felt people would believe that travellers could in fact be a risk.
That's the first question I want to ask. Other than that, good work on Ebola, I say to Dr. Taylor and to you.
I also want to bring up the issue of marijuana. As you well know, I felt that the marijuana report.... We had a report that suggested that the study was very flawed, because you cannot look at risks without looking at benefits, and there was very little done to look at benefits.
We felt that much of the contradictory evidence that came from many of our expert witnesses was not reflected in the report. We also felt that there were a couple of pieces, including looking at some studies and some research that would eventually talk about risks and benefits and at long-term and short-term effects of marijuana both on youth and on others, that were very important things to do. That was not accepted as a recommendation. So we feel that the report leaves a lot to be desired.
What I want to ask, though, is very simply this. There are ads out there now, and I know that the minister is asking for more than $5 million to present the ads. Given what we heard in the testimony, that the evidence was not really out there suggesting that the long-term effects of marijuana use are so absolutely awful—we know the short-term effects—who did the minister consult when she put those ads out? Would she tell us who they were, list them, and table the list to the committee at some point in time?