Public Safety committee  I'm glad I asked that, because that wasn't the answer I was expecting. I thought it was legal. My next question was going to be if marijuana is legal, because it's now a legal product, but obviously it's not legal in penitentiaries either. What I am finding a bit hard to get my head around is a stack of releases from Correctional Service Canada.

Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act  We have a Liberal government that will do anything to help its cronies get funding and contracts in exchange for a $500 ticket to a dinner. The Liberals managed to legalize marijuana and now want to decriminalize hard drugs. However, when it comes to helping honest people who work hard, day in and day out, people who are responsible, or people who are seriously ill and simply deserve our support, there is no danger of Liberal favouritism.

Finance committee  We need to see additional legislation with respect to fintech, the Great Lakes, open banking, SR and ED, fuel tax relief, artificial intelligence, human rights legislation, the charitable sector, income tax reform, and everything, yet what we got was legislation with respect to marijuana—which seems a bit odd—and the moon. While our priority, obviously, is making life more affordable for Canadians, we can see this government's priorities are the moon and marijuana.

Finance committee  Let's see if we can take a further step back there and say that this carbon tax, this tax policy, is a signature piece; that, and legalizing marijuana of the last seven years; that, and high inflation and high deficits. They could have said, “We as Liberals don't want to give that piece up. We're going to be blinded by our ideology.

Health committee  Marijuana remains inaccessible to children, even under legalization, but of course, children, since the dawn of marijuana, have had access to marijuana through other routes. The statistics we're starting to get—and, of course, legalization is a recent phenomenon—suggest that we have a continuation of fewer and fewer kids using marijuana.

Health committee  Digout, have you observed, in your own practices, any change or increase in drug use among adolescent clients since marijuana was legalized in Canada and certain substances have been somewhat de‑demonized? Have you observed that more young people are turning to those products rather than alcohol, which might have been more easily accessible at the time, whereas now it's easier to get hold of marijuana?

Health committee  I think they need more real-life experience type of learning and hearing from people who have experience. When children are starting to dabble, whether its marijuana or whatever, sometimes somebody puts something in what they're taking and that ends up in an overdose. We need to be able to have open conversations with them about using marijuana, and in a non-judgmental way so that they can have open conversations.

Environment committee  Are we supposed to just stay quiet and let them, again, ride roughshod over our community? The Pines that we stood up for are being cut down for marijuana shacks. We are the playground of the people—the youth from Montreal and surrounding communities. It is not a safe community. It's not the community I want. It does not represent Mohawk and indigenous values of caring for the environment.

Mental Health  An article posted by the Canadian Press on August 7 stated that the federal government is “reimbursing a record number of veterans for medical marijuana”. This article prompted VAC to immediately limit when veterans can order their product within their monthly prescription. This caused veterans to suddenly not have any marijuana products for three months and caused a loss of cannabinoid buildup.

Cost of Living Relief Act, No. 1  As for our justice system and the legacy the Liberals are leaving our youth by legalizing soft and hard drugs, what can I say? At this point, even organized crime is getting involved in legal marijuana production. According to an article in La Presse, there is an industrial model of medical marijuana production. A single location is using 36 personal certificates to grow 18,000 plants.

Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II  Some visits had unusual twists, like when Her Majesty visited my home province in 1984, and marijuana was found in our premier's luggage in the royal plane. Obviously he did not know how it got there, and a judge even speculated that a member of the media had planted it. It was all a royal fuss, and I am sure many MPs from other provinces have similar colourful stories about the Queen, pot and the RCMP, or maybe not.

Criminal Code  I have seen dozens, if not hundreds, of young people who have made small mistakes in their lives, including mistakes that now are not even considered criminal, such as smoking marijuana or possession of marijuana. Some mistakes are even small thefts, or being in a car with somebody who had a loaded firearm or who had drugs on them, and the people are facing sentences.

Justice committee  In terms of deaths and serious injuries resulting in hospitalization, impaired driving is clearly the crime that causes the most significant social loss to this country. Since the legalization of marijuana in 2018 by the federal government, we have seen drug-impaired driving collisions rise by 43%. The percentage of Canadian drivers killed in vehicle crashes who test positive for drugs now exceeds the number who test positive for alcohol.

Agriculture committee  I recognize, being in agriculture myself, that it's going to vary from cultivar to cultivar, but what would be an average yield in grams from a marijuana plant or from a square metre perspective?

Agriculture committee  Given the experience of my local community and other areas, please don't perceive the questions I'm asking as opposition to the 2015 legalization of marijuana. However, there have been a number of downsides for a number of communities, as have been mentioned here, particularly on the medical side. I want to make that statement up front. To begin, can I ask for a definition of what a micro licence is, versus a medical licence?