We'll try.
My last question will be this. We've heard repeatedly that the market is 100% organized crime. The evidence is that it's actually not. We heard from Dr. Neil Boyd, a criminologist from SFU, that a 2011 Department of Justice study found that 95% of cannabis trafficking offenders had no link to organized crime or street gangs whatsoever. We heard other testimony that many of the people who are involved in the production and sale of marijuana are actually folks who are entrepreneurial, non-violent, and have nothing to do with organized crime.
The question I'm going to direct is about clause 62, which gives power to the minister to refuse an applicant for involvement in production on the basis of a prior cannabis conviction. Professor Boyd argued that involvement in the current illicit trade should not be sufficient to provide a bar to entry, particularly as we try to bring people into the light—from the illicit market into the licit market—unless they have a record of threats or violence or evidence of dishonesty of some type.
Minister, in the absence of these aggravating factors, do you believe that a prior cannabis conviction alone should be sufficient grounds to bar an individual from participating in the new, legal market?