Health committee  The government sets the policy direction and then we execute on it. The advice is informed by many things. It is informed by extensive outreach to interested parties and stakeholders that go across the gamut. It's other governments and a number of things.

Health committee  Yes.

Health committee  Which policy are you referring to?

Health committee  To use an example, the drug strategy, which the minister referred to in her comments, was the product of work done by the department in order to sort of shape and give substance and form to the policy direction that the government itself set. That would be an example of where—

Health committee  There's been no discussion that I've been part of.

Health committee  B.C. has a requirement to provide us with regular reporting with the various metrics on the status of their.... We routinely brief the minister on the data that's being provided to us.

Health committee  There's a letter of requirements posted on our website. It enumerates a number of requests that we made of the British Columbia government in the context of this exemption. That's maybe the best answer I can provide.

Health committee  No one has that I'm aware of.

Health committee  It would be very hard for us to.... We meet with a lot of stakeholders, and some of them raise things with us. Following the request of the department to pursue that conversation with stakeholders, the answer is no. In the context of a discussion with stakeholders, they raise ideas that may or may not align with government policy.

Health committee  Could you clarify what you mean by “it”?

Health committee  From my response earlier to your colleague, no.

Health committee  Do you mean for the B.C. exemption?

Health committee  There's the study that Dr. Weiss referred to earlier. There's a systematic study of decriminalization, a three-year study, with very clear indicators and metrics that are meant to inform about successes, risks and benefits of the initiative—effectively, the answer to the question you're asking.

Health committee  Not to my knowledge.

Health committee  In the context of their request to us last summer, when they asked for certain amendments, there were absolutely many discussions with the minister—