This law, if not passed, will have a huge impact on youth in Canada. The data already shows that young people are taking to these products--vanilla, strawberry, chocolate, banana, peach--the list goes on and on. It's as plain as the packaging they're in to whom these products are targeted. There's no question about that in anyone's mind at this table who is not part of the tobacco industry.
If MPs here as legislators don't feel they have the authority to deal with such a fundamental public health problem that kills more Canadians than all other forms of preventable illnesses combined.... One out of every two users of tobacco in Canada dies prematurely. We have kids taking up tobacco at record levels. The industry continues to come up with crafty and objectionable marketing strategies. I encourage you to fight the good fight like the rest of us, keep after this industry--you know what they're like--and come back with more and more legislation to take care of this problem.