The key is, if the government or the minister is going to have half a chance of doing anything, then there has to be unity between the tobacco growers and the community side in terms of the plan. That's point number one. It's absolutely essential. I think we around the committee, from all parties, can support you on that, but there needs to be absolute agreement on what the plan is. We have the United States, and we have Australia that moved. There needs to be agreement in your sector, no matter how hard that is, because if you come into government and there are two different proposals, the Minister of Finance will say, “If they can't agree, why should I?” So that's critical.
On November 28th, 2006. See this statement in context.