My concern is really the access that young people and children might have to tobacco products. I'd like to find out whether, in your view, the prohibition of the new flavoured products will end up driving those products into the black market.
I was at a justice committee hearing on drug and gang crime about a month and a half ago, and there was a lot of testimony about the impacts historically of prohibition in terms of creating more opportunities for organized crime, with the product still getting into the hands of the people who want to consume the product, and then it being outside of the ability of government to regulate and tax and apply restrictions to that product to protect the most vulnerable. The concern has been raised that we may be doing that with these flavoured products and that there may be a more detrimental result in the end.
Could you speak about how the changes you are proposing relate to the concerns around prohibition?