Excellent. Thank you.
Ms. Fralick....
That's a good strong south shore name, Mr. Chairman, so there's no question on how you pronounce it.
On the tobacco taxation you covered all of it. The real issue here was of the general domestic rate of excise duty on cigarettes not having effectively changed since 2002. It didn't meet inflation. I think 23.2% is actually what it had to go up by.
I agree 100% with your assessment that this will be a deterrent on cigarette smoking, on tobacco use, period, and will pay for itself in health care benefits. I don't think there's any question on that. At the same time this really isn't part of the budget but there's been a lot of discussion lately, and I'm sure you've heard it amongst first nations, about selling tobacco on-reserve to non-reserve members and charging tax on that tobacco.
Has your group even looked at that even in a cursory way and given some thought to the fact that people are going to continue to smoke, unfortunately, in this country? It may help in many ways to eliminate that underground stream and underground pipeline of tobacco. Have you given any thought to that?