I don't have a problem with the motion and the amendment, but I did want to point out that I was tempted to want to add to the motion a proviso that “as long as these medications continue to comply with other existing regulations regarding packaging”. I wanted to point out that perhaps a big part of the problem in getting medications isn't so much the translation in the language, but the packaging.
Laila and Michael will know that you can't buy pediatric Tempra, Tylenol or Advil in a big container. My understanding is that there is a requirement that you can't sell larger packages because, as Don has pointed out, Tylenol is toxic if you take it in enough quantities. They make it sweet, so that way, you can't give a large package of Tylenol to kids. I'm not sure if that's the case in other countries, so for anything that's brought in, I would assume it would still meet that requirement.
Another thing—and I'm probably violating the rules of Parliament by showing this as a prop—is that most medications like Tylenol and Advil sold in Canada have a top that's childproof. You have to line up the two little arrows. On Aleve, there's another one that you have to do. It's childproof.
However, I would note—and this is of real concern to me—that the other day I turned around and my two-year-old was sitting at the kitchen table with this big bottle of adult Tylenol, which has a very nice top that looks like one of the tires off one of his toy cars. It's very easy to take off, even for a two-year-old. He dumped the Tylenol all over the table, and I didn't know how many he had taken.
In terms of the toxic dose of extra-strength Tylenol, probably four of those is within the toxic range for him. You have to take him to the hospital. You have to do four-hour acetaminophen levels. You have to give him charcoal, and you have to give him Mucomyst if he's in the toxic level.
I would just point out to the opposition and to people with concern about this issue that I think a big problem is not so much the language, but the other packaging requirements, which are there in order to protect the Canadian public.