Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Again, you are fascinating witnesses. I wish I had more time. I have a lot of questions for you.
There are a lot of things we've agreed upon, I think, with some of the witnesses coming forward, but home cultivation is one that there's not a lot of agreement on. I think it's important to point out that cannabis isn't tomatoes. It's not aloe vera. It's not carnations or roses. According to the CMA and the Canadian Paediatric Society, it is potentially dangerous, especially for our young people.
Like you, Mr. Dickie, somebody close in my life developed schizophrenia and lifelong psychological problems that have been attributed to cannabis use. I'd like to bring it down to talking and listening to my constituents, who have concerns about these. I have mostly talked to individuals and small business people—or as the Liberals call them, tax cheats—but one lady came in to see me and identified herself as a former drug user. She identified herself as addicted to marijuana and it took her many years to get off it. She lives in an apartment, an older building, and she is concerned about the smell. She's concerned about how it's going to affect her. This is an extremely difficult situation because now with the government legalizing it, we have the rights of one group, recreational users, and then the rights of others, owners and neighbours who may be in apartments.
Mr. Dickie, I was wondering if you could maybe give us an example. How are governments going to manage the competing interests of the rights of one group versus another group, and historically how has that played out?