Madam Speaker, I would like to thank the member for his question.
I listened when he spoke to the bill in the House. He made some very clear points which I tried to address in my speech today.
For over a decade it has been almost a precedent within jurisprudence that it has been a notion of the law that people would be sent for rehabilitation.
However, one of the key things about rehabilitation that we must remember is that you cannot force people to have treatment. They must be assessed first and that does not require a judge. All the judge needs to do is have the person assessed by a health professional who then decides whether the person is ready for rehabilitation or not.
That has always been done in jurisprudence over the last 10 years with regard to issues like this. I hope we will continue to do it because then the person would be assessed properly and treated if they so desire. As members well know, motivation and acceptance of addiction is an essential part of treatment.