I have a real concern about contraband. In my riding there's a significant amount of contraband and I do feel it would be helpful to have the markings. We did hear some testimony from people who said yes it would help to have markings on the cigarettes. While I know it can be put into the regulations, I don't want to leave it to the whim of the regulators to do that when it's such an important discussion that we've had as we've talked about the plain packaging debate. So for that reason I would prefer to keep it.
On February 28th, 2018. See this statement in context.