Thank you very much.
Thank you all for coming here.
And thank you, Dr. Strang, for actually providing all of the reasons that the move by this government to stop this project dead in its tracks is a dumb move. I need say no more.
Mr. Glover, you're a civil servant and you're doing your job, but I found your presentation rather intriguing. Dr. Strang said that we are falling behind and you said we're doing fine. Sir, we're not doing fine.
I have some questions for you.
Let me just first say that children or youth or other people don't draw cigarettes out of the computer screen by watching the Internet or BlackBerry screens. They go and buy them, and they need to be presented with those startling images when they purchase those things. So my biases are pretty clear.
I understand that as far back as 2009, Mr. Glover, you were ready to start drafting the regulations. You had, in fact, all of the refreshed and renewed images ready to go.
First of all, I'd ask you to produce, at the earliest possible time, the October 2009 version of those images to this committee and any other later version that you may have prepared.
Secondly, I'd ask you whether or not you did share with the NGOs and other people who worked with you over the years that you were ready to draft the regulations. In fact, I'm told you were actually encouraging those people who work on this issue to start working on the plain packaging as well and removing the brands. Is that true or not?