Thanks very much to all of you for coming and for your valuable input.
I apologize, but I had to step out for a moment, and on a slightly unrelated note, I understand that there was an implication that the legalization of marijuana might lead to an increase in marijuana laced with fentanyl. From what I understand, part of the purpose of the legalization is that you would have a legalized, regulated, and inspected supply chain that would in fact prevent this. This is one of the reasons for legalizing it. When you're buying it from a legal source, you don't have that problem. I wanted to clarify that this was behind that strategy.
Going back to what we were talking about before, there are a couple of different physicians groups, the College of Family Physicians, and the Indigenous Physicians Association of Canada, and there is a guide, “Health and Health Care Implications of Systemic Racism on Indigenous Peoples in Canada”, which was released in 2016. It noted that there was unintentional racism that would manifest in the way of erroneous assumptions. Again, having been in the health care system for 20 years, I'd say that not all of it was unintentional. It said that these assumptions would change how health care providers, all the way from first responders up through nurses and physicians, might affect care.
Ms. Hopkins and Mr. Day, in your experience, has this kind of racism in the health care system affected how victims of addiction are treated?