Again, as an outsider, I would say this is a system that's working reasonably well. I went into my study, which was started a couple of years ago, expecting to find flaws, to be honest, and I was surprised at how well Canada's system runs.
I think what you're finding is the inevitable politics of any program that has to allocate scarce resources—someone wins, someone loses, and the losers invariably have to complain. I'm not making a moral judgment here. They want entitlement to those scarce resources, and so they're going to want to contest and worry about the process.
I can say, as an outsider, that this process is very good. I would argue it's possibly one of the best drug policies that's happened at a national level in Canada ever, because we've had so few national drug policies, truthfully, aside from regulation.