Thank you very much.
First, I will talk about some of the issues we had here. I'll be honest, I sent some of my officers from this city to East Hastings Street to actually see what happens when drugs become almost legalized. From my perspective, I don't think that's a success story, with all due respect to Vancouver. I can also tell you, from talking to the police officers on the street in Vancouver--I was there last year and went to some of the locations with them--they would tell you the same thing, that what they're seeing there, for them, is not a success story.
The second piece to this, I think, is that unless we're thinking about the Government of Canada getting into trafficking or sales of crack cocaine or cocaine or heroin, I don't understand for one second how legalization is going to assist any of us. Legalization will only allow criminal organizations to continue selling at higher levels. It's not going to change what we're doing now.
From my perspective, not as a health professional but as a police chief and a police officer, I can tell you there's nothing I've seen on East Hastings Street or in Vancouver that I consider a success story at this time.