Justice committee  I'm sorry, I don't have that number at my fingertips, so I can't tell you that.

Justice committee  The Alcohol-Drug Education Service of British Columbia, the.... No.

Justice committee  I know that the board has approximately 12 people on it. I don't know other members, other than that.

Justice committee  I am not an expert in that area, so I can only tell from the community perspective that I'm very much in contact with. Certainly the idea of using anything, including alcohol, which is the most common date rape drug, for that purpose should carry a very severe sentence, in my opi

Justice committee  Yes, it was Sweden. It would be very good for someone to do a study and present to your group. Of all countries, they are the only one that I'm aware of that experienced drug abuse increasing because they had very lax, very lenient policy. They became more restrictive in their po

Justice committee  I have been there twice, for international conferences on both occasions, and I met with senior police officials there, who discussed the policy with me. They have published an account, a history if you will, that is available over the Internet and other areas. I have written cop

Justice committee  Drugs are not legally available, like that, in any country that I'm aware of. I have quite a lot of experience debating this issue. The first thing I ask is why current drug traffickers would stop selling the drug just because it had become legally available through some kind o

Justice committee  I'm sorry, I'm not aware of any study like that either.

Justice committee  That is a good question. My only concern would be to make sure that we are getting enough people into treatment through the drug court system. I certainly am not qualified to examine the way the law is written and that sort of thing to know what's going to happen once it finall

Justice committee  First of all, thank you for hearing me and for making this facility available, as I was not able to travel to Ottawa to speak to you in person. I am representing the Drug Prevention Network of Canada. I am currently the vice-president of that organization and a member of the Inte