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Health committee I think you were very comprehensive. One minor comment is that under the federal tobacco control strategy, our partners in Public Safety, the RCMP and others receive funding to monitor the marketplace for contraband. They are in the best position to respond to that question.
June 9th, 2009Committee meeting
Cathy Sabiston
Justice committee It's not our expertise either.
May 13th, 2009Committee meeting
Cathy Sabiston
Justice committee Thank you for the question. As I mentioned, for our prevention activities under the national anti-drug strategy, we've targeted that $30 million for a campaign. We also have moneys within the department for the drug strategy community initiative fund, which does look at innovati
May 13th, 2009Committee meeting
Cathy Sabiston
Justice committee I'm going to ask my colleague Colleen Ryan to respond.
May 13th, 2009Committee meeting
Cathy Sabiston
Justice committee It was 2007.
May 13th, 2009Committee meeting
Cathy Sabiston
Justice committee Numbers are dastardly little things. What I'm referring to are the Health Canada moneys only out of the $232 million. So it's $30 million for our prevention, $85.5 for the treatment action plan that Health Canada manages, and then we do have a small budget also that we contribute
May 13th, 2009Committee meeting
Cathy Sabiston
Justice committee I don't know percentage-wise, to be frank. I know raw numbers, so maybe I can go over those and we can figure them out together. For prevention, overall the government announced $232 million over five years for the national anti-drug strategy, of which $30 million is going to the
May 13th, 2009Committee meeting
Cathy Sabiston
Justice committee When you add in the treatment aspect, it's $30 million plus another $85.5 million. So again, I don't have my calculator here—I'm a generalist, not a mathematician—but in any event, you put those two amounts together and it's about $116 million or so.
May 13th, 2009Committee meeting
Cathy Sabiston
Justice committee You did say prevention and treatment, so I was responding in that regard.
May 13th, 2009Committee meeting
Cathy Sabiston
Justice committee Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you to the members of the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights for allowing me this opportunity to speak to you about Canada's national anti-drug strategy. This strategy represents Canada's approach to reducing the supply of and demand
May 13th, 2009Committee meeting
Cathy Sabiston