Let me answer your question. If the hon. member would allow me to answer he might learn something.
The government increased the tobacco health tax that went straight into health funding. That has been something for which anti-smoking advocates have asked for a long long time. We were the first people to do it.
Legislation was also brought in that dealt with banning kiddy packs. Other legislation in effect banned the use of tobacco in vending machines so that tobacco was brought almost alongside alcohol in terms of where it could be bought. It cannot be sold anywhere unless the person is not a minor. So it would only be in bars where you cannot go until you are over 19.
The age limit was increased for people bringing tobacco into the country. All of that was brought in when we brought in this legislation. It is a comprehensive set of strategies. It is interesting that we would only talk about this issue.
Banning the advertising of cigarettes is something that Canada took the lead in. These are things that have been questioned by the tobacco industry. One of the things that we now know is that when we talked about sponsorship in terms of advertising we said that tobacco companies could not promote and sponsor tobacco because of course of the Supreme Court rulings. They could do it only as a corporate entity. The tobacco companies changed their corporate logo to their tobacco logo and got around that legislation.
This is something that we have been moving forward on for years as a country. Every time we move forward, something comes up to block us in terms of legislation and the Supreme Court.
We continue to keep struggling to move forward on this issue because of legalities. The will is there. The political will has been shown. There are legalities that we constantly have to move around. There is research that we are doing to help us to do this.