I received correspondence from parliament. This is a slow and frustrating process. It appears we are back to jurisdiction. No one wants to take responsibility. My response is copy and pasted below. Please contact Marjorie Michel , Canada’s Minister of Health at marjorie.michel@parl.gc.ca and cc Cameron Wilcox (Office of Todd Doherty our sponsor) at camwil100@gmail.com if you’d like to help. It’s important to cc Cameron so there’s witness that emails were sent. If they don’t hear more voices there’s no hope! Thank you!

Dear Cameron,     I have already reached out to provincial governments. I have written hundreds of emails. Provincial government deals with prescribing and the federal government deals with drug safety. I feel Madi’s Law requires Federal and Provincial governments work together. When I contact the provincial governments, they say it’s federal. When I contact the federal government, they say it’s provincial. Neither wants to take responsibility. 
    As far as privacy goes, we already have caregivers in place in our existing system. Surgeries require a caregiver be in place. It is not safe to give powerful, mind altering drugs to a patient for the first time without a caregiver in place until it’s deemed safe to take. Doctors cannot go home with their patients. They need help. 
    Again, most patients try three or four types before they find the one that works for them or they opt not to take it at all. Many suffer harm or die during this process. Madisyn was one of them. There are so many Madi’s out there. We can do things to prevent this! I received hundreds of emails from people who have suffered or had a loved one die. 
   In our dental office when we prescribe one 1mg lorazepam pill for some anxious patients, we require a caregiver be in place for 24 hours. My daughter was given 30 1mg pills (first prescription ever for lorazepam) in a ten minute telephone appointment on a Friday afternoon. Why is the standard of care so different in a family Doctor’s office? 
     I need the Canadian Government to be concerned. Millions of people in the world are harmed or die from adverse reactions to prescription psychotropics. This is no secret… it’s a well documented problem. Let’s be honest.. anything that hinders these drugs being tracked or pumped out quickly (follow the money) is discouraged. Saving lives is not the number one consideration as it should be. Money and profit appears to be. 
     Jurisdiction and privacy are putting lives at risk. We need forward thinking. The Canadian Government cannot change what it doesn’t acknowledge. These drugs are as dangerous as a loaded gun in the case of adverse reactions. Just like people are allergic to penicillin, adverse reactions exist in volume with psychotropics. Prevention is key! There is no blood test that verifies how a patient will respond. Canadians deserve safer practices. 
    Please do what you can. Pursue any avenue that brings awareness and positive change. Pursue C-297.  Please read this to the people with the power to do something. It could be their loved one in need of a temporary caregiver until a psychotropic drug is deemed safe for them to take. I lost my daughter for the most preventable reason. We can do better…we HAVE to do better! 
   We will know the colour of Taylor Swift’s shirt by the time the sun goes down. The important issues get neglected. It’s discouraging but I will hold hope and be the voice of my daughter, until the day I leave this earth! She did not deserve to lose her life to drug induced psychosis. 

Kind Regards, 

Louise Carter