Thank you, Madam Chair.
I want to thank the officials for being here again to help explain this very important bill to us and the Canadian public.
There has been a lot of misinformation and perhaps interpretation and just misunderstanding of some of the aspects of the bill. One of the things that's close to this committee's heart is tobacco and we worked very hard together and we passed Bill C-32. I think everybody here is very proud of that. But tobacco products have a permanent statutory exemption under this bill. Only the propensity for ignition is included in the regulatory framework, and some of our stakeholders have insisted that this exclusion be deleted in the interest of the overall health of Canadians.
So why have you not changed this since the last bill? I was wondering if you could explain it to everybody in plain language and maybe give an example.
Mr. Ianiro, I talked to you about this before in one of the briefings. Would you be able to put that on the table for us?