Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Health's own department showed that consumption of tobacco is up by 20 per cent in Ontario, Quebec, and New Brunswick in the last 10 months. Yet our tobacco reduction strategy just mentioned by the hon. minister has been cut by 50 per cent. Why is the government spending $3 million abroad while our smoking problem in Canada gets progressively worse?
In the House of Commons on May 8th, 1995. See this statement in context.