You can just assume that some of these summary convictions and ongoing addiction problems of our young people, and being charged for breaches and for carrying marijuana, have created many issues in our communities. Because policing programs are not adequately funded, the training in community-based policing is not going to be there. You have the heavy cost of the justice system in our communities. You have remote situations where, if someone is caught with marijuana and charged with an offence, that charge is left hanging because court only happens every so often.
The impacts of cannabis in our communities are much greater. Just those small examples should suggest strongly to the committee that the impacts of cannabis on first nations need to be looked at in great depth.