Right now, tobacco is the only high government tax product that actually is allowed to be collected from different sources. Alcohol is all collected...you never even pay GST at the till. For gasoline, you just pay one price; you don't see any other taxes.
The problem with tobacco is you have excise and duty taxes at production. You have a provincial tobacco tax that is distributed at the provincial level by the tear tape colour, and then you have the HST or GST or QST, depending on the province. You have three different collection points for tobacco, and if Revenue was here, they'd tell you there are three different opportunities to avoid that tax in the delivery models, whether it be counterfeit, whether it be on and off aboriginal reserves here in Ontario, or whether it be brought in from New York State. If everybody had to pay the taxes up front, then the governments of the day could get together and divide out their share, and for sure we'd minimize at least that problem. We could start correcting all the problems that are left because of that.