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House Hansard - 320

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 29, 2024 02:00PM
Context: House Hansard - 320 - May/29/24
Mr. Stephen Ellis
  • May/29/24 8:00:40 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, is the NDP-Liberal government looking to fund the so-called safe supply of heroin?
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Context: House Hansard - 320 - May/29/24
Mr. Stephen Ellis
  • May/29/24 8:00:56 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, is the NDP-Liberal government looking at allowing the so-called safe supply of heroin?
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Context: House Hansard - 320 - May/29/24
Mr. Stephen Ellis
  • May/29/24 8:01:28 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, could the minister confirm or deny if this company, Fair Price Pharma, has a dealer's licence for heroin?
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Context: House Hansard - 320 - May/29/24
Mr. Stephen Ellis
  • May/29/24 8:01:44 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, could the minister confirm or deny that Fair Price Pharma has an importation licence for heroin?
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Context: House Hansard - 320 - May/29/24
Mr. Stephen Ellis
  • May/29/24 8:02:13 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, can the minister tell Canadians how much heroin Fair Price Pharma has imported into Canada?
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Context: House Hansard - 320 - May/29/24
Mr. Stephen Ellis
  • May/29/24 8:02:25 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, oddly enough, the answer is 15 kilograms. Can the minister tell Canadians when this 15 kilograms of heroin was imported into Canada?
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Context: House Hansard - 320 - May/29/24
Mr. Stephen Ellis
  • May/29/24 8:03:19 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, does the minister believe heroin should be distributed via vending machines?
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Context: House Hansard - 320 - May/29/24
Ms. Melissa Lantsman
  • May/29/24 9:14:09 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, it is in possession of 15 kilograms of imported heroin as a result of a licence that was granted by Health Canada. Just to be clear, has anybody in the minister's office met with Perry Kendall?
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Context: House Hansard - 320 - May/29/24
Ms. Melissa Lantsman
  • May/29/24 9:17:03 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, if the minister is not planning to fund the so-called safe supply of heroin, why is anybody in the ministry, her office or her predecessor's office meeting with Fair Price Pharma?
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Context: House Hansard - 320 - May/29/24
Mr. Garnett Genuis (Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, CPC)
  • May/29/24 9:45:08 p.m.
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Madam Chair, I am splitting three ways, and my questions will be for the Minister of Mental Health and Addictions. My colleagues have asked about a company called Fair Price Pharma, which is run by former B.C. public health officer Perry Kendall and a partner. Its business is selling heroin. The results of an Order Paper question show that in a two-year period leading up to December 13 of last year, the minister met with Fair Price Pharma on September 15, her predecessor met personally with Fair Price Pharma four times and that health officials met with it an additional seven times. That is a dozen meetings in two years, which is a lot of meetings for a minister and officials with one company in the heroin business. What is being discussed in these 12 meetings between Liberals and this heroin company?
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Context: House Hansard - 320 - May/29/24
Mr. Garnett Genuis
  • May/29/24 9:46:29 p.m.
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Madam Chair, this is not a dispassionate expert. This is someone who went from the public health world into selling heroin. Twelve meetings in two years is not normal even for an expert. Again I will ask, what is being discussed in these meetings? What is Fair Price Pharma asking the Liberal government for?
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Context: House Hansard - 320 - May/29/24
Mr. Garnett Genuis
  • May/29/24 9:47:09 p.m.
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Madam Chair, 12 meetings in two years. Four in-person meetings with this heroin company and the former minister. This new incoming minister must have been briefed on the nature of this close relationship and what was being discussed. For a final time, why is the government meeting 12 times in two years with this heroin company? What is being discussed? What is Fair Price Pharma asking for?
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Context: House Hansard - 320 - May/29/24
Mr. Garnett Genuis
  • May/29/24 9:50:00 p.m.
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Madam Chair, there have been 12 meetings with a heroin-selling company. The government is refusing to release contracts involving the Government of Canada and corporate drug dealers. Why will the minister not tell us what was discussed in those meetings, and why is the minister sitting on these contracts?
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Context: House Hansard - 320 - May/29/24
Mr. Robert Kitchen
  • May/29/24 9:58:55 p.m.
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Madam Chair, what about injecting heroin at a playground with children?
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Context: House Hansard - 320 - May/29/24
Mr. Stephen Ellis
  • May/29/24 11:33:18 p.m.
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Madam Chair, those people who really care about this issue know that the street price for Dilaudid has reduced from about $25 to $1 to $2 per tablet, shockingly. I wonder if the minister could tell Canadians this: Has the import and supply of heroin ever been allowed in Canada?
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Context: House Hansard - 320 - May/29/24
Mr. Stephen Ellis
  • May/29/24 11:33:48 p.m.
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Madam Chair, I wonder if the minister could answer this for Canadians: Has heroin been legally imported in Canada in the last five years?
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Context: House Hansard - 320 - May/29/24
Hon. Ya'ara Saks
  • May/29/24 11:33:57 p.m.
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Madam Chair, as a physician, the member should well know that heroin is used in the standard practice of medicine in terms of pain management.
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Context: House Hansard - 320 - May/29/24
Mr. Stephen Ellis
  • May/29/24 11:34:10 p.m.
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Madam Chair, oddly enough, I did have a pain clinic for 15 years, and that is not true. Anyway, that being said, did Fair Price Pharma import 15 kilograms of heroin into Canada in November 2021?
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Context: House Hansard - 320 - May/29/24
Hon. Ya'ara Saks
  • May/29/24 11:34:24 p.m.
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Madam Chair, just to correct the record, it is true that heroin is used in medical practice. However, no, Health Canada did not import 15 kilograms of heroin.
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Context: House Hansard - 320 - May/29/24
Mr. Stephen Ellis
  • May/29/24 11:34:36 p.m.
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Madam Chair, has any private firm been granted a dealer's licence to legally possess, produce, sell and distribute opium or heroin in Canada?
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