I'd like to begin by thanking all the witnesses and in particular to salute my constituent, Coroner Lapointe. It's lovely to have you here, Coroner Lapointe.
I'd like to say for the record that I express my condolences to you and your colleagues on the loss of a truly great Canadian, Barbara McLintock, who of course worked with you for so long.
If I may, I will start with you, Ms. Lapointe. In a February 2019 article, a news piece on Global News, you're quoted as follows:
Families and communities across the province are losing friends, neighbours and loved ones to illicit overdoses at an alarming rate. The illicit drug supply is unpredictable and unmanageable, and fentanyl is now implicated in 86 per cent of overdose deaths. The almost 1,500 deaths in B.C. in 2018 due to illicit drug overdoses far outweigh the numbers of people dying from motor vehicle incidents, homicides and suicides combined.
Could you please explain to this committee what you meant when you said that the illicit drug supply is “unpredictable and unmanageable”?