Mr. Chair, I deeply respect our hon. colleague across the way. I am going to offer that I have not read the same reports that he is referring to. I would think we should first make sure that we have beds available. Let us make sure that we have treatment facilities available. Let us make sure that the drugs are not getting into our communities, whether it is our major centres or rural communities. Let us make sure that the drugs are not getting into the hands of youth. It is staggering to see the reports that this is an all ages epidemic. Children as young as 10 are ingesting this drug and they are dying. It is cut into everything.
We need to make sure that we are doing everything we can to combat this crisis. The first step would be to declare a national state of emergency with respect to the fentanyl and opioid crisis.