Mr. Chair, I want to thank the Conservatives for a good motion. It's an important subject to discuss. I also agree with everything that Ms. Goodridge and Dr. Powlowski have said, especially with respect to making sure that the packaging is appropriate.
I would like to get on the record that we aren't in a situation where we need to pass an emergency resolution, not because this isn't urgent—this is very urgent—but the food and drug regulations already allow for this. We aren't in a situation where we need to ask for anything new. This happens regularly due to shortages across supply chains, to address these sorts of things. The food and drug regulations include a framework for the exceptional importation and sale of drugs that are not otherwise licensed in Canada. The intention of that framework is to help ensure that Canadians have access to critical drugs when there is a shortage due to supply or demand issues. In critical shortage situations, Health Canada will never hesitate to accept foreign products as long as they meet Canada's very high health and safety requirements.
I would suggest that we're in favour of the amended motion, given that we're quite late in the program today. I thank the Conservatives for bringing this forward, because it is definitely worthy of conversation.