I will be brief, Mr. Chairman.
I congratulate you on your initiative. I know that the tabling of a private member's bill is always an important moment. I am campaigning within my caucus in order to have two hours a day devoted to private members' business. In that way, everyone could do their job as a legislator. I hope that some day, this campaign will come to fruition reality.
I did not understand the innovative character of your bill. I was under the impression that methamphetamine and the substances used to make it were clearly banned under schedule 1 of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act. I understand the concept of intent. We will see as a committee what the witnesses will tell us. Perhaps there are some clarifications required.
Do you have any indications that would lead us to believe that the organizations responsible for law enforcement—the RCMP or the various police forces of Canada and of Quebec—have a lax attitude as far as methamphetamine is concerned? I was also part of the committee, as Ms. Libby Davies was saying, for a year and half. At the request of your former colleague Mr. Randy White, we set up a committee on the non-therapeutic use of drugs. I had the impression that there was a real sense of urgency and that the organizations responsible for law enforcement were very sensitive to devastating effects of methamphetamine. You seem to be giving us a different perspective.
If I understand correctly, you are a member from Alberta. Why would there be something particular to your province that would not be found in other areas of Canada and of Quebec?