Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thanks to the minister for being here for the estimates. I almost feel bad for you, though, having to defend your government's irresponsible fiscal management, but I only have seven minutes so I'm going to get right into the questions. I have three to start, and if you don't mind, I'd like to ask them all.
The first one is, in the budget there was a mention of public education, programming, and surveillance activities for marijuana. Given your government's priority, I was wondering if you could define that for us.
The second one is with regard to vulnerable Canadians who depend on medical marijuana. They trusted you and your government to ensure that what they were using was regulated and, more importantly, safe. That was the promise; however, we found out that dangerous carcinogenic fungicides were being used in medical marijuana. Obviously the current inspection system isn't working, so this leads to the second question. Is more money being allocated for inspection following the recall of medical marijuana products that were putting vulnerable users at risk?
The third question is, are proper inspections actually now taking place? If so, how many have been done?