Kilfer
Bluelighter
No.
And is probably illegal as well. Having not heard or read Ambrose's statement I can't say with 100% certainty that she meant all opiates should be XR, or only certain ones.
Or the other way around. In any case both are from Quebec and historically Prime Ministers from that province have proven to be more open-minded than those from elsewhere regardless of which party they lead. Chretien was a "tough guy" though, but both Trudeau Jr and Mulcair appear to be compassionate-minded about drugs.
This is unlikely, separatism in Quebec is waning and the younger voters are very attracted to the NDP despite Jack Layton's passing, which that the BQ had -kinda stupidly- thought would've brought them some of the NDP votes. I wouldn't be surprised if the BQ simply evaporated. Anyway like you say with only 4 seats they don't count for much now. That said, you are right that the BQ held Harper in check for many years, but fortunately most of the BQ's seats were lost to the NDP not to the Tories.
Therre is no DEA but doctors are monitored by the Feds, by the province where they practice and by their professional associations, just like lawyers are regulated by the Bar. The Feds keep tabs on Schedule I, II, III, and IV drugs but provinces also monitor them through their public drug insurance programs. A physician who overprescribes can be reprimanded for a first offense, then it gets more serious if he/she continues.
More importantly, ministers in Canada have little actual power over their departments which are run by civil servants such as Deputy Ministers and Associate Ministers. While the Minister can replace the Deputy Minister she can't get rid of Associate Ministers and department heads. This makes implementing new policies a very slow process. The "idiot" is in for quite a ride.
FWIW, a friend called me last year and he told me he had percodan from the dentist, dentists are really generous with the painkillers in QC is all I can say, he didn't have straight up Percodan, doesn't exist anymore, he had Oxycodan, the generic form of Percodan like Oxycocet is the generic of Percocet ( I should have known and just mentioned that, not mentioning brand names is a good trick 'round here, except for like generic no name pure oxycodone pills that follow the OXY IR / Supeudol format of 5-10-20mg. But yeah for my jaw issues, I was thrown 60 2mg Dillies with a refill on each revisit, they can't give me surgery, too dangerous, the area there is covered with nerves which are already damaged for me which at some point caused me trigeminal neuralgias on top of the TMJ disorder problem, goddamn hardcore punk and jumping into the crowd with your guitar....that's how the degenerative problem got kickstarted, I was already a mess from bruxism, like when I am really into writing guitar riffs/studying/video games, whatever catches my attention cos I love it/it interests me, I start to tighten my jaw (both sides), but that's an ADD symptom apparently, Dexedrine helped ADD, but it made any sort of muscle contraction worse. 
z of pure hydrocodone syrup (Hycodan), I didn't ask for it. Later, when they see you have had a script for such in the past and suffer from similar symptoms, you'll be given codeine or hydrocodone syrup or pills (pure, there is Hycodan 5mg pills and 30mg pure codeine pills).
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