Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'm attempting to understand the Conservative mindset, and that's an exercise rather like plunging into a labyrinth of illogical thinking and dead ends. Conservatives today are lamenting the 10-month delay, but they actually objected to the ministerial decision to put nicotine replacement products, the pouches, behind the pharmacy counter as a measure to prevent access by youth, because adults having a choice to use therapeutic nicotine products was deemed to be more important. At the same time, there is a very real problem of market influence from unregulated vape products, some of which are alarmingly potent, with up to thousands of hits per vape, and easy to access.
Hopefully I can take a little time with you, Ms. Butson.
Do we have the balance right between reasonable access for adult smokers to NRTs and limiting access for youth and preventing access to unregulated, imported foreign products?
I have to ask you to be very brief because time is so limited, and I want a chance for Dr. Moore Hepburn to comment.