Incredibly grateful to join my local community news station with Carla Fitzsimmons to…

And so it's already been tabled in the house and what it does is it sticks to my why in why I ran for politics, which is this drug crisis that we're facing on a national level. I don't think there's one riding that hasn't been affected some way by this drug crisis that we're facing. So what it does is it enters rehabilitation into incarceration. And so I'll walk you through sort of how it will work is a judge can prescribe rehabilitation to an inmate, whatever that might look like, could be drug rehabilitation, could be mental health supports, could be education, whatever that might look like. And then if the inmate chooses to take that rehabilitation path, then it's up to us, the federal government to supply the supports, offer the supports that are needed to complete that rehabilitation plan. And then when the plans completed, the parole board can actually look at it as an extra measure just to look at to see if they had completed the prescribed rehabilitation plan. So it isn't forced, it's still inmate choice. But it offers another path, I believe so much in breaking cycles, and an opportunity to do so. So you have to be accountable, you know, if you've gotten in trouble and have to go to jail, you have to be accountable to your actions. But I also want to provide another path for someone to break their cycle and rehabilitate or do what they need to do. So that when they get out of jail that they can lead a different life. So when you put forth this bill, what was the reasoning behind it for you? Was it a personal situation? Or was it that you looked at it and you could see that there's loopholes or holes in it that need to be corrected? The personal reason for me was really to focus on any way that I can make change on a federal level around rehabilitation. I believe in abstinence based rehabilitation, and that people need to when they make that choice to change their lives, that they need the help and the support to do so. And this is what I can do to on a federal level start implementing that and also start talking about it more on a national level of, hey, we need brick and mortar, we need mental health supports, we need to service people when they're ready to make that change for themselves. And so this is a starting point to first hold everybody accountable. And second, change the narrative around what addiction is and the fact that people can rehabilitate can change their lives and can have a whole different beautiful life on the other side of addiction.