Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Dolhai, for being with us here today. Congratulations on your nomination and soon-to-be appointment. I understand that this is the last hurdle, or perhaps the second-to-last hurdle, for you to overcome. Congratulations on a job well done so far.
I'm going to follow up on a question that my colleague Mr. Moore asked about the decriminalization of possession of small amounts of illicit drugs. I want to focus particularly on what happened in my home province of British Columbia with the pilot project whereby the federal government gave an exemption to British Columbia under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act. It's a three-year pilot project, but a year into it, it was clear that it was a failed project, and it has been rolled back substantially now. Again, the province and the federal government are working together.
I wonder if you could elaborate on that, because prior to that, I understand there was de facto decriminalization in any event, not only in British Columbia but across the country, for possession of small amounts for personal use.
What big difference did the exemption order make, and now that it has been rolled back, what are prosecutions going to look like going forward?