Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you so much, Ms. Lam and Ms. Kent, for attending today and providing us with some valuable testimony as we study this piece of legislation. It's a legislative review of the PCEPA. I want to thank you for your advocacy.
I'm going to start with you, Ms. Kent. I took an opportunity, in preparing for this hearing, to look at your website. You touched upon it in your opening remarks. We've heard so far—and I'm sure we're going to hear more on later occasions and at later dates—witnesses who are proponents of decriminalization. We've heard supporters, such as you, strongly advocating for continuing on with the benefits of Bill C-36.
Can you expand for us a little on some of the disastrous effects of decriminalization in New Zealand?