Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank Mr. Sacy and Ms. Paradis for their presentations, which were both informative and at times impassioned.
Ms. Paradis, I understand the shell game you want to play by using the excise tax to affect the price of these drinks and young people's access to them. Yet a Health Canada official who spoke before you said that the regulatory changes seem to go in two directions: reducing the size of the can and reducing the alcohol content. If the alcohol content is 4.9%, requiring the industry to use ethyl alcohol in order for the product to be subject to the excise tax on spirits will not work.