Mr. Speaker, it is very interesting that the finance minister believes his government has done all that it can to stop smoking.
The health minister is under the same delusion. In an article he wrote yesterday he believes that his government is in favour of health promotion. The facts are that on this government's watch a quarter of a million children have picked up smoking. It has reversed a 15 year trend of decline in smoking.
How can the government and its ministers say they are promoting health when through their actions smoking by children has increased over the last five years?