Thank you for the great question, Dr. Ellis.
This is truly an issue that is gripping so many communities right across Canada. I know we've had some very passionate debate in the House of Commons and at various committees on this subject.
As I said in my opening remarks, it can be a vicious cycle. You can look at the symptoms that many people with brain injury exhibit, and they can have poor judgment and poor impulse control and other things that may lead them on a path towards drug use as a way of managing what's going on inside their own bodies. If they get a hypoxic brain injury, then we have this vicious cycle starting.
With Bill C-277, I wanted to provide a positive legislative measure that, so far, we can all get behind to tackle some of the spinoff effects from this. From what I've heard around this table and in the House of Commons, we seem to have a lot of people in agreement that this could be helping that very serious problem in so many of our communities.