We are very much in favour of evidence-based decision-making, and where a program or a service can be demonstrated as effective and useful, obviously we're open to consideration, based on the facts. That's why we've taken the position on marijuana that we have.
We have an approach now that costs about $2.5 billion a year to administer, yet Canadian young people are among the heaviest users of marijuana in the world. At the same time, $8 billion to $9 billion is going into the hands of organized crime. We have to do better than that, and we believe the system that we've proposed in legislation will actually achieve a better result to better protect our kids, stop the flow of illegal cash to crime organizations, and establish a regime that will make society overall safer and healthier.