The commission is very positive about medication-focused treatments in which people are monitored and supported. I mentioned methadone maintenance clinics and other opioid agonist therapies.
At the same time, the commission looked at the history of what happened in both of our countries around widespread prescription of opioids given with very little supervision in the community. We were assured by the companies and by the doctors that no harm would result. Prescriptions went up dramatically, and that is how this whole crisis started, so to say that now, for some reason, if we now distribute opioids without any supervision, the same thing won't happen again beggars belief. That contradicts our very recent historical experience, both in Canada and in the United States. We didn't recommend doing the same thing as before and expecting a different result.