Health committee  Our suggestion, from conferring with colleagues, is that there's a lot of material. Certainly in my area we could do this in two weeks, I think, fairly easily. Dr. Mithani was saying that there may be some data that might take a little longer to get. We could commit to trying t

Health committee  There's a lot of work on opioids under way in the health portfolio right now. I could give you a catalogue of the areas that we're working on, the priorities. With regard to the money in the budget, the government has not to date come out and publicly said this is the specific b

Health committee  I have one more example, and I think it's powerful. We have been working with an expert panel over the last number of months, and one of the things we're looking at is the monographs for all opioid drugs right now. As you would know, these are the labels that effectively tell pra

Health committee  I wouldn't want to prejudge what we may advise the minister for the next budget round and so on. We think that the resources that have been provided are substantial and are going to be very helpful in our ability to advance the priorities that the government set out. This is a t

Health committee  That's the conversation we're having right now with the provinces and territories. In the announcement the government made as it reached funding agreements with each province and territory you would have seen, perhaps, a discussion about how the next step is to sit down and—this

Health committee  What I can say is that to date, frankly, there has been very good collaboration with the provinces and territories. I can speak only as an official, but at the level of deputy minister and senior officials, there have been lots of conversations over the last 14 or 15 months. Inde

Health committee  I think so. Yes. Obviously, there is more water to go under the bridge, but we've had great discussions to date. I think every signal was that the provinces and territories were anxious to get moving.

Health committee  There are the announcements that have been made jointly with the various provinces and territories on the funding issue, which is an agreement on the funding levels. We are now working on what you might call the documents related to the content. For example, just to take things

Health committee  None have been yet, and that's been a function of the discussions that have been ongoing about the money, leading up to the budget. We've been waiting until the budget step was done. We're now actively going back and having that conversation.

Health committee  I would be very happy to provide the stats. I don't have them immediately available. With regard to the issue of hydrogen cyanide, though, and the presence of that, just by way of illustration, the amount of hydrogen cyanide you get from burning and inhaling marijuana smoke—whi

Health committee  I'll certainly try to get back to you as quickly as possible. I can make that commitment now.

Health committee  Certainly, the government has been pretty clear about that in its public statements and in what the minister has said publicly and with her colleagues, and certainly the instruction I would be operating under as an official is that this is the objective that we want to see achiev

Health committee  At this point, there are still ongoing discussions with Manitoba on this issue.

Health committee  It is mandatory that licensed producers who wish to use pesticides on their crop only use of one of the 14 chemicals available. There is a short list. The rules require that if they wish to use pesticides, those are the only ones they're allowed to use. That's a condition of thei

Health committee  No, the answer is that we've started randomized testing to determine whether people are complying with the rules as they exist. As I mentioned earlier, we've had a very good track record of compliance with the rules generally. We've had a couple of incidents recently involving