Mr. Speaker, earlier today, my colleagues had a press conference with the chiefs from Northern Ontario, who talked once again about the crisis with respect to OxyContin and the abuse of prescription drugs in their communities. There has been widespread interest in this question. Fully over 80% of all the prescriptions for painkillers in the world are given out to North Americans. We have a serious issue in our country with respect to this. I wonder why the minister would not delay the market sale of OxyContin by not issuing a drug ID number, which she has the full power to? Will she tell us why she will not meet with the chiefs at a time when she is prepared to—
In the House of Commons on December 4th, 2012. See this statement in context.