Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I thank Mr. Fortin for raising what I'd rather be talking about, and that's the decriminalization of personal possession of drugs. I'll just remind everyone that there's a separate process and that a private member's bill is working its way through the House in parallel.
I want to take a moment to let Mr. Maki know he hasn't been forgotten. I want to ask him a question about all the rage that was going on in the United States for mandatory minimums for a number of years. Some of those jurisdictions, I think including Texas, have really backed away from the mandatory minimums. I think there has been a move in quite a few states to start doing what we're considering here, which is eliminating mandatory minimums.
Can you say a bit about that experience in the U.S.?