Madam Speaker, it is a pleasure to speak to Bill C-47.
I do not think anybody in the House would disagree with the general notion that we ought to do as much as we can in this place and in the provincial legislatures to reduce the incidence of smoking in Canada and particularly smoking by young people.
I commend my colleagues in the provincial government in Nova Scotia who today introduced some of the toughest anti-smoking legislation that any province has ever introduced in the past. It is focused on reducing the incidence of smoking by young people. My province of Nova Scotia has a very high incidence of smoking.