Mr. Speaker, the issue we are raising today is not compassion. The minister already has the ability to allow drugs for emergency access relief or to speed up his own drug approval process and still operate within the law and according to safety standards. The question is, why does the minister proceed with a policy without any basis in law and without meeting safety standards?
Where are the regulations that he promised in April 1998 when he unilaterally and arbitrarily changed the law or, in the words of his own staff, where is the legal opinion to show that this government is operating according to the spirit and the letter of the Food and Drugs Act?