Thank you, Madam Chair. There are a couple of things I would like to follow through on, starting with a few things that Minister Roland told us about in his opening remarks. Specifically to the information he provided saying among the priorities for the coming year are going to be identifying the issues to be considered in a possible review of the Liquor Act. This is something that this government should be looking at as a fairly high priority, Madam Chair. The Liquor Act has been around for some time now and I have a sense from amongst people who are clients, if you will -- Liquor Act vendors and outlets -- that there are a number of things that they would like to see modernized in there.
Personally, Madam Chair, I am coming from more of a social orientation where I see so much evidence of the abuse of liquor in our society. Yet, I don't see much evidence, at least from this government, of where the mandate is to really take on the duty of promotion and awareness and prevention. I believe our government is falling far short of what we should be doing in this area. I believe that revisions to the Liquor Act would be something that we could use to address both the issues, as I say, of vendors and merchants in the way it's administered on their part. They need this, Madam Chair, to be able to run their businesses efficiently and profitably. Also our society, I believe, desperately needs this government to adopt a far more aggressive attitude towards prevention and awareness in general. So I would like to ask the Minister, on that point, to identify the issues to be considered in a review of the Liquor Act. Thank you, Madam Chair.