31.   The report urges the government to reverse the alarming trend by funding the war on drugs in nonmetropolitan areas as well as it does in foreign countries like Colombia.

32.   There have been no deaths or illnesses, but the threats nonetheless represent an alarming trend.

33.   While Chretien only alluded to the alarming trend, Kok took direct aim at what he called a tendency towards isolationism, a retreat from the international scene.