Okay.
Sure, I'm happy to answer.
Thank you for your compliment on the Ebola response. The Public Health Agency has worked very hard. We have tried, as a government, to.... I shouldn't say try, we've supported them in every possible way with any requests that they've had to make sure that they're able to respond appropriately, and we'll continue to do that.
On marijuana, who did we consult? I held a number of round tables that I'm happy to share with you. Actually, I think we put out a press release after the expert round table we had with researchers and physicians who have studied this issue for many years, addiction specialists. When I asked them, overwhelmingly their message to me was that the evidence is absolutely irrefutable. Of course, the same message has been made publicly by the head of the Canadian Medical Association, that the evidence is irrefutable about the harm of marijuana to youth and the developing brain.
I asked the researchers point-blank, “What can we as a government do? If you had your wish, what would you ask me to do to help you?” They said that we needed a national marijuana smoking cessation campaign, a national one. Kids don't know how harmful marijuana is to their health. Parents think it's the same as what they smoked 30 years ago. They have no clue about how this could harm their kids. We've seen psychosis; we've seen mental health issues.
I said, “Okay, we're going to try to do that”, and we did. We put together an awareness campaign, focused on the impact on the developing brain of youth. Health Canada did a lot of work with researchers to make sure that anything that was said in those campaigns was backed by research, and we can table that and give it to you should you want to see it. We can provide you a briefing. There's no question about the harmful effects of marijuana on the developing brain. The science is irrefutable.
To your point about people wanting to know what the benefits are, if there are any legitimate researchers who would like to do a clinical trial, I haven't met them yet. They haven't come forward to me and said, “We have the funds and the backing of a company or someone who wants to do clinical trials.” There's no evidence right now, and you know that from the recent report of the Canadian Family Physician and from the guidelines that are being given to doctors to prescribe marijuana across this country. We don't have the evidence that it's actually—