Very quickly, I agree with what Mr. Lauzon has said. Wayne has his version of what's happened in the past. If, indeed, his previous government solved the problem, I don't know why we're sitting here talking about it still. So I have some difficulty suggesting that the solution is already there, Wayne. It's not, and it needs to be pretty soon.
I represent a riding that includes the town of Aylmer, Ontario. Aylmer was one of the last places where Imperial Tobacco made cigarettes. They left town. They went to Mexico. They still buy some small amount of Canadian tobacco to ship to Mexico to make those cigarettes, but that was the industry in the town of Aylmer. That's what there was.
To lay this only on the producer.... I recognize that my friends and neighbours who still grow tobacco have problems too. I'm not discounting them at all, but I have a whole community here whose problem is that it was the only industry in the community: they made cigarettes. You can certainly talk about anti-tobacco strategy all you want, and they may have been the devil reincarnate for making cigarettes in this day, but that was the industry in town.
We need to look at all facets of the problem and all the pieces of a solution. I know the solution lies in the manufacturers, in the Province of Ontario, and in the tobacco board itself, whose only job is to market tobacco. They've become the standard-bearer for this exit strategy, but their job is marketing. It's in their title: the Ontario Flue-Cured Tobacco Growers' Marketing Board.
There are still places in this world where people smoke cigarettes. We have great farmers who can grow tobacco. Let's start selling more of it. That's part of the solution too. It needs to be there.
Then there's the federal government and the provincial government. I'm working, as I said, with the mayors on economic development for that area. We'll do the other piece. We'll work on the economic piece. We need to work for a solution for producers. But it's not one person. It's not just the federal government. It's all of us.