A supplementary, Mr. Speaker, for the Prime Minister.
Earlier this month the premier of Alberta in his role as chairman of the most recent western premiers' conference wrote to the Prime Minister asking for his co-operation to combat the potential flood of smuggled tobacco from central Canada into western Canada. One of the recommendations was to implement a uniform federal tobacco tax rate across all of Canada to lessen the incentive for interprovincial smuggling.
Can the Prime Minister tell the House if he has made any effort to adopt this proposal from the western premiers?