Health committee  It's not important whether the person introduced the substance into their own body or whether someone else did it.

Health committee  It's in the the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act. The bill is making amendments to the the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act. It's a common mistake. The possession for the purpose means that you end up having to demonstrate that the person in possession of the drug intends t

Health committee  That's correct. I guess you could interpret the third paragraph, the precision, as covering off the overdosed individual. It could be interpreted that way, yes.

Health committee  The exemption targets only the offence at subsection 4(1) of the CDSA.

Health committee  No, the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act.

Health committee  I don't think so, no.

Health committee  Well, typically, a crack house will have users but will also have traffickers. The traffickers will either be in possession for the purpose of trafficking, or they will have trafficked. Those individuals would not be covered by this exemption, right? The police would still be abl

Health committee  I'm not really in a position to say one way or the other.

Health committee  It's your committee's call. No doubt the police would have a perspective, but it's up to you to make that call.

Health committee  Are you suggesting that in this legislation we put in amounts in terms of the possession offence being contemplated?

Health committee  They do, but in the jurisdictions I'm familiar with, the amounts go to the penalty rather than to the offence, per se. I guess it would be possible, but then the difficulty would become, first, what amounts, and then, what amounts for which drugs? More than a hundred and some d

Health committee  We're looking at potential, so I think yes, there's the potential. If I could make one small observation, the question was raised earlier on as to whether or not the person who suffers an overdose is covered by this. The person who's covered by an overdose would be covered only

Health committee  Yes, it is.

Health committee  That is correct.

Health committee  You're right in that it is very broad. As an example, if an overdose were to occur at a rave party, there may be dozens of people there. Would the precision here apply to everyone at the rave? Perhaps there's a way of narrowing it. Again though, it does depend on the bill's spo