Thank you, Mr. Chair.
You must forgive me; I am a member from the west, and sometimes I have trouble expressing myself in French.
My first questions will be for Mr. Gagnon, and then for Mr. Bédard.
Mr. Gagnon, this is not the first time I have heard about a difference in the proposed act regarding cannabis and cigarettes.
My question is about the intellectual property rights your business benefits from, as do as others in the same sector, with specific reference to packaging. I have heard that Health Canada wants Canada to use its own packaging, and that it would be unique in the world. This would facilitate contraband, since traffickers use the same machines to produce the cigarettes and the packaging.
You referred to a sum of $2 billion, but the contraband market would generate eight times what the government says if the fiscal planning system were to be handed over to private companies. Can you tell us more about the packaging issue?