Mr. Speaker, our first priority on the NDP side is with front-line responders: ambulance, firefighters, the people who are dealing with this crisis every day.
In my own community, Mid-Island Hiv Aids Society has trained 800 volunteers on how to use naloxone. The human commitment to alleviating the suffering is tremendous. We certainly want to see the federal government doing everything it can to support front-line workers, doing everything it can to keep drugs out of the country, and to keep the drugs from being made illegally with pill presses and so on.
Again, we want to see spending now to get ahead of this crisis. It has a huge human cost. I am stunned to have heard from my colleague from Vancouver Kingsway that this budget offer is an 80% reduction over what the Conservatives had planned to spend. Another real problem is that the $110 million is mostly backloaded into future spending years. We need to spend it now.