Thank you, Chair, and thank you to the panel for being here.
I certainly have a sense that first off, there's no one body that's responsible for all of this. One of the bodies that seems to always be missed in all of the discussion is the guy who buys the cigarettes. I haven't seen much from folks who want to do anything about discouraging them. We point fingers at the aboriginal community, we point fingers at the tobacco industry, but we haven't pointed fingers yet at the people off the reserve who are buying these cigarettes--perhaps children or whoever--or the people who are transporting them.
Particularly CCAT has a mandate, and I understand that it's perhaps very aggressive towards the tobacco manufacturers. I think our friend here mentioned something about being in silos. Have you considered working with some of those groups, getting out of our silos, working together to discourage the Canadian public from buying cigarettes when, first off, we don't know what's in them? We're fairly satisfied that it's not necessarily in the best interests of either the people who manufacture them, the people who illegally import them, or the people who sell them, but for certain, I think we can say it's not good for the health of the people who smoke them.
There could be a concerted effort to work together with the legitimate industry to try to cut down that demand that's out there by people--for a bargain. That's why they're buying it, but they may not know what's in the bargain. Have you considered working together?