Health committee  In relation to having a list, you have to understand that you have to provide a mechanism for a list. In other words, if you establish a positive list, you have to establish a mechanism by which that list can evolve over time, because suppliers have new technologies and they will want to change things, like how they make the paper, the filter material.

Health committee  I did not in fact say that sugar needs to be removed. What I was referring to is the ambiguity of the word “sugar” or “sugars”. When we think of sugars, we think of all types of sugars. The fact is that the only sugars that provide sweetness are things like table sugar, which is sucrose, or fructose, or sugars of that type, which are very simple sugars.

Health committee  Not in our cigarettes.

Health committee  I believe in the manufacture of, for example, traditional, blended products, yes, there are some sugars that are used. I will even say that in roll-your-own products there are also some sugars that are used as well, at very, very low levels. I also have to specify that they do not make the product sweet.

Health committee  Generally speaking, ITCAN endorses the regulating of fruit and confectionery-flavoured little cigars. We are open to working with Health Canada officials on an ongoing basis to find a solution that will achieve the objectives sought and avoid the problems arising from the inadequate wording of the regulations.

Health committee  Thank you, Madam Chair, for this opportunity. As mentioned already, we support the broad objective of elimination of overtly fruity or confectionery style of flavours in all tobacco products. So in that sense we don't have any complaint about the concept of coming up with a list of prohibited additives in relation to tobacco products.