Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Health.
The minister knows that the tobacco epidemic costs 45,000 lives every year. Her predecessor, the former minister, promised to ban the labelling of cigarettes described as light or mild, as the new WHO tobacco treaty requires. Why has the minister betrayed that promise?
How many more kids will start to smoke and how many more smokers will die before the minister finally takes on the big tobacco companies and bans this dishonest labelling of cigarettes as light and mild?