Mr. Speaker, I have a quote from a recent Health Canada study which shows that the nicotine content of tobacco used in Canadian cigarettes has increased 53 per cent in the last 27 years.
This government has invested $2 million in increasing the nicotine content of tobacco to make it more addictive in its Delhi plants in Ontario. I ask the Prime Minister, for the sake of all Canadians and in particular for the health of our youth, will he stop using taxpayers' money to fund research into increasing the addictive potential of cigarettes?