Mr. Speaker, I would like to talk about the process that led to this bill and that, I think, raises a number of questions.
In particular, in the drafting of this bill, we learned that a consultant was asked to do a study. The consultant, a friend of the Liberal Party, was paid $74,000 to find out how much marijuana costs on the street. Over time, we also learned that a number of Liberal Party friends are shareholders in marijuana companies, and that they stand to make money off this legalization.
Would the member care to comment on that, or on the fact that some people stand to make money on the legalization of marijuana?