Question Period Note: Implementing the Expert Task Force on Substance Use (ETFSU) Recommendations

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Reference number:
MMHA-2024-QP-0027
Date received:
Jun 19, 2024
Organization:
Health Canada
Name of Minister:
Saks, Ya'ara (Hon.)
Title of Minister:
Minister of Mental Health and Addictions

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Suggested Response:

• We appreciate the excellent work of the Expert Task Force on Substance Use whose mandate was to provide advice to inform our Government’s renewed Canadian Drugs and Substances Strategy.
• It is important that our actions be informed by the independent advice of experts. I have asked the Department to reestablish an Expert Advisory Committee that would provide council and inform and strengthen federal actions to address the overdose crisis.
• This work is underway.

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