Most immediately, as the other witnesses have spoken to, the risk of synthetic nicotine is tremendous for Canadian children and youth.
I think all of our breath was taken away when Zonnic appeared on convenience store shelves. The idea of legally selling a product manufactured by the tobacco industry in a berry flavour to young children is truly breathtaking. Thanks to this government, with the collaboration of national health organizations, we were able to put into place protections to make sure that young children would not cause themselves undue harm as a result of these products.
Any move forward in the natural health product space must take into consideration the fact that nicotine replacement therapy and now novel nicotine-containing products like nicotine pouches are included in that regulatory oversight mechanism.