Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you all for being here today and presenting to us.
In particular, thank you to the Vancouver Police Department, Inspector Bruce and Staff Sergeant Speam. Your concerns and the concerns of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police are certainly concerns of the Conservative caucus. We thank you for presenting here today to express your concerns, in particular, about access to youth through personal cultivation at home. I feel that this is going to be an incredible problem. Of course, you oppose it, the four-plant maximum. You mentioned the enforcement of it being almost impossible and also the potential for it to.... Actually, it will flood the illicit market, and of course you mentioned the crimes involved with it, the home invasions and electricity theft. Everything you said makes absolute perfect sense, and we agree with you 100%.
Again, your training and the timelines are going to be difficult. In the months after July 1 of 2018, you are going to go into homes with four or five or six plants. What do you do? It's going to be interesting to deal with all the problems that are going to occur from this. You mentioned the pricing structure, and I mentioned this earlier today as well. To compete with the illicit market, I just don't see it happening although some presenters here today suggest that we can be comparable in price with the black market. I just don't see it with all the regulations that are in place....
I think we may have lost our friends down in Vancouver. I just lost my train of thought with them. I was going to ask them some questions. Are they still there?