Thank you very much for your testimony. There has been some suggestion that the use of cannabis is on the decline in Canada. The “Canadian Tobacco, Alcohol and Drugs 2015 Survey” which is the most recent one, found that the prevalence of past year cannabis use was 12% in 2015. That was an increase of 1% over 2013, and while it hasn't changed in males, the significant increase in cannabis use by women went from 7% to 10%.
I come back to referencing that there's already a problem with youth, and I assume with prevalent rates of 21% of youth and 30% of young adults reporting using cannabis, those are typically Saskatchewan numbers as well. In your identification of problems in Saskatchewan, one of them was the cost of detecting impaired driving from drug use, the training required and the equipment you needed. I would have to assume that with a pretty steady state in cannabis use you already have those problem drivers on the road, so without this legislation, was nothing going to happen or would you not have had to move forward in Saskatchewan as others are?
I have a second question. I will ask it now and then let you respond.
We heard this morning that if a province or territory wasn't ready, the legislation does envision an e-commerce model where people could buy cannabis from registered licensed producers and they would have it delivered by Canada Post, the sort of current model that's there for medical marijuana. What would Saskatchewan's reaction be to that, where if you were unable to deliver legislation then people in Saskatchewan would still be able to procure it through a model that's not under your control? Also, for the poorer communities, the more outreach communities where it's going to be very hard to get distribution, they're going to need some kind of e-commerce model as well. You can't have a store in every hamlet.
Those are my two questions for Saskatchewan.