Customs Act  Mr. Speaker, when Bill C-21 was first tabled in June of 2016, the relationship we had with the United States was a very close one, so sharing data made sense at that time. I am increasingly concerned about the tariffs the U.S. has put on us, claiming national security issues. I

Customs Act  Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my hon. colleague for her reflections on the many important things that have happened over the last 15 years. It is important for government, when there is a plethora of important things to address, to actually pick the things that are important

Opioid Crisis in Canada  Mr. Chair, I fully agree that more needs to be done and we need to listen to one another. Would the member comment on the government's priority when it has offered $600 million to buy the media in an election and $230 million to address the opioid crisis?

Opioid Crisis in Canada  Mr. Chair, one of the really important things is to make sure there is public education about the harms from these drugs and the fact that one can take them once and die. It is the government's duty to inform. There has been no education about the harms of the opioid crisis that

Opioid Crisis in Canada  Mr. Chair, one of the areas we have not talked about tonight has been the grief supports that families of people who have died from the opioid crisis need. I am an advocate for palliative care, which has created a lot of grief support across the country. However, that support is

Opioid Crisis in Canada  Madam Chair, my question for the member is this. This is a huge priority. We see the Prime Minister tweeting out $50 million here and there. There have been $250 million pledged to the opioid crisis, but probably only $50 million has been spent to date. Will the government increa

Opioid Crisis in Canada  Madam Chair, the member brings up a very good point. There were shortages of naloxone. There are chronic drug shortages under the current Liberal government. The Liberals need to get a plan to address that. Their plan of having a website where they list them is not helpful at all

Opioid Crisis in Canada  Madam Chair, it is important, when we look at the Portugal model, to understand what was done there and what the order of operations was. It put in place mandatory public education, and it had 170 treatment and recovery centres for 11 million people. It has a truly universal he

Opioid Crisis in Canada  Madam Chair, we cannot move to that step until we have these other elements in place. We in Canada have huge gaps in mental health support, so people cannot afford to get the help they need. We do not have the treatment and recovery infrastructure we need. We have not done the in

Opioid Crisis in Canada  Madam Chair, it is an excellent question. Portugal had 170 treatment and recovery centres, and they were multi-bed, with 100 plus beds each, for 11 million people. If we think about Canada, with 36 million people, and the number of treatment centres we would have to have in place

Opioid Crisis in Canada  Madam Chair, as my mother always said, “You can't change the past, you can only change the future.” When we look ahead at what we need to do, public education does not just mean labels on a bottle. In places that do it well, like Switzerland and Portugal, they have mandatory ed

Opioid Crisis in Canada  Madam Chair, I am very pleased to be here tonight to speak on this very important topic. The opioid crisis in Canada is killing more people than homicide, suicide and traffic accidents combined. We have heard the statistics and they are alarming: 8,000 Canadians have died from th

Opioid Crisis in Canada  Madam Chair, I thank the parliamentary secretary to the government House leader for his speech and passion. I do understand the nature of the problem in Winnipeg, Manitoba. I was there two weeks ago doing a round table on methamphetamine addiction. Some of the solutions to thes

Opioid Crisis in Canada  Madam Chair, I would like to thank my colleague for all the dedication he shows on the health committee. One of the things that is really disappointing is to see that the government is in its fourth year of its mandate and there has been a crisis with opioids from the time that

Opioid Crisis in Canada  Mr. Chair, I would like to thank my colleague for his advocacy with respect to this crisis. I wonder if he could comment on the failure of the government to provide education for young people about the harms of drugs and to not be paying attention to the lack of beds across the c