Thank you, Chair.
Mr. Buckley, I'm assuming you're listening to the testimony here today.
Mr. Arango, in his previous answer to a question, indicated that the government already has a regulatory process started and a gazetting process going, whereby these pouches or nicotine.... I don't think anybody here is arguing that we should be getting these things out of the hands of kids. Nobody here is making that argument. We're simply trying to draw a line between what the minister has said in defence of Bill C-69 and the Food and Drugs Act, and whether or not the government actually needs the power to do so.
Mr Buckley, you strongly argue that the government already has the ability to do so. My colleague Mr Davies just mentioned the Tobacco and Vaping Products Act.
If that's the case, what would prevent the minister...? Does the minister have the power right now?
Let's say one of these nicotine pouches had a natural product number. Could the minister pull that natural product number from that product? It's just a simple yes or no.