Thank you, Mr. Chair. Welcome to all of our guests.
Mr. Stamatakis, thank you very much for coming today. I'm very glad that you touched on Constable Todd Baylis. My father was a police officer, who now is long retired, so that particular incident hit home with me. I grew up in Toronto. As much as I know how it impacted me and my family, I can't imagine what it did to his family and his fiancée. I really thank you for bringing that to the attention of this committee.
You mentioned that Mr. Gayle had been a drug dealer. Todd Baylis was unfortunately in the process of disrupting a crack cocaine drug deal. I want to thank you very much for bringing that information to the committee.
I am going to come back with a question in a moment, but I want to direct my question, first of all, to Mr. Neve.
In your opening remarks you mentioned that you were against this bill. One of the reasons was that it could mean deportation of someone for a crime as low as having six marijuana plants. What you left off is that it's not just the possession; it's with the intent of trafficking drugs.
My question for your is this: Do you believe drug trafficking is a serious offence?