Mr. Speaker, I want to expand on the comments that were made earlier and also on the comments made by the hon. member for the Bloc Québécois who has done a lot of work on the issue of substance abuse. The Conservative member from Port Moody has also done a lot of work on this as well.
I want to expand this debate to two issues that are important to Canadians. They involve the drugs ecstasy and crystal meth. In my province of British Columbia and some other provinces as well, pot is tied intimately to the drug trade along with cocaine and heroin. There are two other substances that are being produced with quite dramatic effects and they are ecstasy, and the much more potent and dangerous substance crystal methamphetamine which is also extremely addictive. Young people are being drawn into the sex trade in part because they want to trade sex for crystal meth.
How do we deal with this? All of this is intimately entwined with organized crime, which as I mentioned before, acquires some 85% of its profits from drug trafficking and, in particular, pot. The groups mostly involved in this are organized crime gangs, particularly biker gangs, and in the province of British Columbia, Vietnamese crime gangs.
What does the hon. member suggest we could do to give our police the tools they need to deal with the crisis that is taking place right now with respect to crystal meth and MDMA, or ecstasy?