Health committee  I'm sorry, Madam Chair. Could the honorable member repeat the change, please?

Health committee  I don't have any additional comments. (Amendment agreed to [See Minutes of Proceedings])

Health committee  The member states of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control are presently negotiating a protocol on this very issue of contraband, so it's an international concern. Member states are trying to come together to fight the contraband issue.

Health committee  Contraband is not only outside the scope of the amending bill, it's outside of the scope of the Tobacco Act. The Tobacco Act is meant to deal with the health aspects related to tobacco products. It does not have the tools necessary to deal with contraband.

Health committee  As I was explaining, we only have one regulation-making power provided for in the bill, and that refers to the definition of little cigars.

Health committee  It's actually a drafting technique. We have in “little cigars” a defined term, and we have to make sure we also have the power to amend that defined term. So it's not as if we have two bullet-proofs—we have one regulation-making power....

Health committee  Madam Chair, as committee members are fully aware, the Department of Justice does scrutinize all bills brought forward by the government on a number of issues, including Parliament's power to enact the legislation, the constitutionality of the legislation, and this also includes

Health committee  One would have to determine if the department does tracking. Of course, it's a matter of having evidence.

Health committee  To determine whether it is a case of misleading advertising, first of all one would have to verify whether the cigarettes or the little cigars contain a vitamin as the package promises.

Health committee  The government's strongest enforcement tools on contraband are in the Excise Tax Act and the Criminal Code. Those are the tools being used.

Health committee  Bill C-11 was a different situation. Bill C-11 could refer back to the Public Health Agency of Canada Act . In this case, the advice we have received is that it would incur a royal recommendation. The Speaker's ruling in 2005 with respect to amendments of this type at committee i

Health committee  Madam Chair, I'm Diane Labelle. I am from the Department of Justice, providing legal services to the Department of Health. Madam Chair, I would like to draw the committee's attention to the fact that “a danger to human health or safety” is the defined term in the act that provid

Health committee  Madam Chair, this is to say that what the member is speaking to is already provided for in the statute, in the proposed bill before you, through the definition of “consumer product”. This would be an unnecessary addition if you're looking at paragraph 7(a) as worded now.

Health committee  Madam Chair, Justice has looked at this issue of moving tobacco to schedule 1. It has formed the view that Parliament has enacted valid legislation with respect to tobacco. Tobacco use is a unique social and health problem that the Tobacco Act does address. It was developed for t

Health committee  Madam Chair, perhaps I can clarify the points that are being made about the interaction between CCPSA and CEPA. One has to understand the context in which CCPSA will be operating. It is establishing a new obligation in the sense of a prohibition. If a substance or product is ca