The solutions and proposals are the ones I mentioned in my remarks. I could elaborate on those, but, indeed, you will never solve such a problematic issue without doing a number of things. We must invest in all the social determinants of health. We have excellent care in Canada, but it's quite difficult to access. People are struggling to access health care and social services. There is a crisis in access to housing, and the policies in place stigmatize people and exclude them. That creates a toxic market. Let's stop kidding ourselves.
Canada first banned poppy tea and opium, and then morphine, heroin and fentanyl. Every time a substance is banned, other more dangerous and unknown substances emerge. A toxic market exists because of our own policies.
We refuse to recognize that substance use is part of human nature. I've said it before: It will never go away. We must find a way to regulate the market. It exists, and it will always exist. We must choose whether to allow organized crime to control the market, leave it in the hands of multinationals, or entrust the government with the responsibility. There are risks, of course, because there will never be a perfect policy. There are certainly drawbacks to each of them, but we have to find the best one. The best policy is not to back down on prohibition; it is to provide a framework for the policy.