But isn't that a double standard? We've determined that cigarette smoking is not good.
I'm going to tell you a little story. I had the tobacco people come into my office one time and they were really upset about the fact that the first nations people were selling tobacco. We got talking about that and I told them my problem. The government has taxed this to a point where it is now lucrative for organized crime. As a matter of fact, I don't know if people know this, but a bale of tobacco at that time was $75,000. It was more lucrative to sell tobacco than it was to sell marijuana. The tobacco company is selling a product that we know is harmful to people's health, and the first nations groups are selling it illegally. I told them I didn't really know who the criminals were.
Are we going to have an issue...? Maybe I can direct this to somebody else.
Mr. Goodale, maybe you can help me with this too. I really hope we have an endgame and that we're not going to make this cheaper and more of a product that appeals to youth because it's cheaper. Are we going to then tax it so that we now have a new problem such that maybe groups like first nations will say it's entirely within their purview and they will start marketing the stuff? Have we thought about that?
You can see where my line of questioning is going. There seems to be a whole lot of things you haven't thought about that you maybe should.