Justice committee  Thank you, Mr. Ménard. Like my colleague, Mr. Paradis, I feel more comfortable in English. So, if you don't mind, I'll also continue in English. Thank you. The example I was giving with Mr. Obama—and this could have applied to George Bush as well—is that under our current law

Justice committee  I don't think it's likely that they would be imprisoned. Under our current law, merely giving somebody a drug—you don't need to sell it to him—constitutes the offence of trafficking. Mr. Obama admitted that at one point he used cocaine. If he had been in Canada and he had been

Justice committee  He was given one but he didn't inhale it.

Justice committee  Would you like to take a brownie, Mr. Chair?

Justice committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I've taught drug policy at the University of Ottawa for almost a decade. I've worked in the field for over 20 years. I was the first chair of the Law Reform Commission of Canada's drug policy group. I'm one of the founders of the Canadian Foundation for Dru