Madam Speaker, I am pleased to present today thousands of signatures of Canadians from Quebec, Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia. These petitioners note that tobacco products are clearly linked to many forms of cancer, heart disease, and other serious diseases, that the use of tobacco products is directly responsible for some 38,000 premature deaths of Canadians annually and that tobacco can therefore rightly be termed a hazardous product.
Therefore the petitioners call upon Parliament to remove the exemption for tobacco under the Hazardous Products Act.