Mr. Chair, I'll start over. There was an article over the weekend that really brings home the problem I started talking about last week: that so-called safe supply is really anything but.
There seems to be a desire on the other side of the table to avoid talking about this. We've pushed to study the opioids issue for some time. Obviously, I'm new to this committee, or recently back to this committee, but I have been part of a number of debates. I look to the end of the table where our colleague Mr. Davies is normally. I see him online.
We can say a lot of things about the partisan politics in the House of Commons over the eight years since I've been elected, eight years just last Friday, but the one thing that we seem to come together on is mental health and addictions. We always seem to be able to be on the same page for that. We've been pushing the government for eight years to declare the opioid crisis a national health crisis, with the exception of the last 20 months, I would say, where our colleagues from the NDP seem to be siding, when push comes to shove—