Mr. Speaker, let us return to some logic here for a moment.
We have, in the last nine years, lost 42,000 Canadians, including children, to drug overdoses. Some policy report comes across the Minister of Justice's desk saying to decriminalize hard drugs, a 30-day supply of hard drugs. Now, the logical response to that would be, “no”, rejection, and “we are not going to be doing that”. This is what I am asking the Liberal government to say.
However, what did the Liberals say when that policy proposal came to their desk? It was celebrated. The Minister of Justice said openly in a press release that it was “an important milestone” and “history-making”. That is not a logical response to a very serious problem.
What we need is specific vision and direction on how we are going to help struggling Canadians move forward, not to entertain more radical criminal justice policies.