Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
In the main estimates for 2011-12, the contributions in support of the Federal Tobacco Control Strategy have not changed from last year, in other words, they are still $15.7 million.
Madam Minister, you will no doubt recall that the last time you were here, you told us you were going to refocus the strategy to target contraband tobacco activities more directly. You went on to explain that you had changed your mind and had refocused the strategy on new warning labels, moving away from what you had announced last fall and revamping the entire contraband tobacco strategy.
I said to you then that you could do both, and that a true tobacco control strategy should consist of two key activities: encouraging people to quit smoking and keeping contraband tobacco off the black market.
In response to a question from a Liberal colleague, Ms. Yeates seemed to say that the entire contraband strategy would be solely in the hands of the RCMP. Yet you said during a press conference that Health Canada also had a hand in combatting contraband tobacco activities.
I would just like to know whether that $15.7 million will allow for a comprehensive strategy that truly integrates both of the components necessary to ensure that the public stops smoking once and for all.