Madam Speaker, I want to thank the member for his speech today and for his years of service in policing our communities in Toronto.
I will give the hon. member credit. He did come to Barrie. I know he did a cross-Canada tour on this.
I subsequently met with the stakeholders the member met with in Barrie. There were significant concerns about this bill. Everyone I spoke to after that meeting felt that the parliamentary secretary was hearing but was not listening to those concerns. There were obviously social concerns with respect to the legalization of marijuana, but more specifically, there was a concern about the cost and the downloading of costs to municipalities with respect to policing, enforcement, zoning, etc. Those were some of the issues people were left confused by. Any time there is confusion, there is doubt.
I want to ask the parliamentary secretary about the downloading of costs and how his government plans to deal with them.