I have to declare my bias. I agree with Mr. Cunningham. I think any attempt to lower the price of cigarettes in any way, tax or otherwise, is a public health disaster.
This question is for the Canadian Convenience Stores Association. In your own material you say, at page 4, that contraband cigarettes are priced cheaply, often selling for a dollar a pack. If that's the case, then how, possibly, is lowering the price of cigarettes, unless you're going to get down to a dollar a pack, ever going to stop that type of approach, as opposed to simply keeping taxes and the price high and instead going at it from an enforcement point of view?