I can't believe that.
You say that there's too much to study, so we have to narrow it down to two because there's too much material, yet we can't spend time on the study because there's so much to study. It's one or the other. We all admit that there's a lot to study, and there are lots of issues out there, especially when it comes to opioids.
I might remind the member that you're the one who wrote the study. If you didn't want to include opioids in the study, you shouldn't have put it in there, but you did put it in there, so then all of a sudden the door is open. What I'm asking of you is to spend two more meetings and get the opioid issue out in the committee.
We have to really consider a lot of different things. As a committee, we have a new chief medical examiner. We just ran across her the other day, and I'm sure she has a lot more to explain on this subject. We have the health minister, who has to come back and explain why she thinks fentanyl is safe to use next to children. There are lots of different things we can talk about; never mind what we are doing in Canada for opioid addictions, how consumption sites are not working, and where the Liberal government is going on this in the future.
What are we doing for treatment? What are we doing for recovery? How did we get here with HIV? Obviously, what we're doing is not working. To not acknowledge that in the study and to say, “only two days”.... There are lots of things the provinces want to say in this study, and I would welcome them at the table as well when we start talking about this.
I would ask you again to please consider. Let's wrap this opioid study in and include this for two more meetings.