Health committee  Thank you. Besides what Lee has already mentioned about the precursors and things of that nature, I'll take two parts of your question. On the big part, the importation, I think it would be wrong for me not to mention the fact that, whether it's huge importation or minor import

Health committee  Update legislation to make a threshold where we can approach a judge or a justice of the peace and say, “Here's the evidence we have. As a result of that evidence, we need the password, and the individual has that password”. If we pass that threshold on these major investigatio

Health committee  I talk with the FBI all the time about this. They're very much on the record about what they need in the United States, what we need in Canada and beyond.

Health committee  Not yet.

Health committee  As I mentioned earlier, we deal closely with the CIROC committee, the Canadian Integrated Response to Organized Crime. It's co-chaired by the deputy commissioner of the RCMP and me. We have members from various enforcement communities across the country, including CBSA. At that c

Health committee  I'll start answering and then I'll turn it to Lee, because I know he's an expert in this area. We have ion scanners that the OPP has bought. They're expensive. We have a certain number of those distributed around the country. They're not easy to use, but they will give our offic

Health committee  When we talk about the wraparound services, I think it's important to make sure that it's done thoroughly and with full understanding. If we can't seize a small amount of methamphetamine—a half a gram or less that somebody has in a syringe or whatever—that's probably not going to

Health committee  I think it's important to recognize that we have to deal with each case individually based on how the person is presenting themselves. There is no strategic or specific way to deal with every individual case. They have to be taken on their own merits. It's also important to rec

Health committee  From my position, I'm not sure. I think it's tricky. When we talk about decriminalization, it's important to look after the users who are on the street and have no other alternatives. We absolutely agree with that and would support that ahead of any investigation into somebody wh

Health committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, and good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for your invitation to be here today. I'm joined today by Staff Sergeant Lee Fulford, who is an expert in methamphetamine production, packaging, trafficking and things of that nature. I'll share the task of making com

Health committee  From an Ontario perspective, we have 164 detachments spread across the province. Some of those detachments we access by airplane only. Members there will have to be trained as well, because it's important to recognize that our officers on Monday morning may report to their detach

Health committee  If I got your question, you're saying the money that has been committed will help for the training...?

Health committee  I believe the money will help with training our officers, but I also believe there will be more costs involved. Again, you can look at the diversity of the OPP and the geographical challenges we have to train 6,000 officers. It takes a long time to bring somebody in from a commun

Health committee  I'll perhaps share that answer with my colleague, Deputy Chief Carrique. Firstly, I think I mentioned before, it's important to have a layered process. It's not as simple as getting a licence to grow by just having your name on a certificate, having somebody do a criminal record

Health committee  I guess if somebody were to grow their own marijuana and use it in their house for personal consumption, then they would have control of the product from the beginning to the end. That would probably be better than reaching out to somebody on the street and getting a product that