Public Safety committee  With respect to the honourable member, the stamping process is done in about 87% of all the countries in the world, though, so it is a good suggestion, and it can be part and parcel of a bigger strategy to view it. I asked my colleagues and I know it's done all over the world--

Public Safety committee  If it's part of a strategy that moves towards all of it, yes, it certainly is, because we'd be collecting the tax up front then.

Public Safety committee  One thing that concerns me very much, as a first nations person, is that the fastest-growing rate of underage smokers—in all of North America, not just in Canada—is on first nations territories. That's something that even our leaders should discourage at the end of the day; that'

Public Safety committee  Young teenage first nations people need jobs, like anybody else, so they'll go where the jobs are.

Public Safety committee  They're human.

Public Safety committee  First of all, thank you and all the panel members very much for allowing us to come and address these issues. In answer to your question on what I see for first nations young people, it's not just in Six Nations, but in a lot of first nations territories all throughout Ontario

Public Safety committee  I certainly am a licensed manufacturer.

Public Safety committee  If you're talking to me from a first nations perspective, it doesn't benefit the community as a whole. The licence does not serve me well if it doesn't help my people overall. Yes, I could lose everything I own for saying that, but do you know what? I'd rather be broke. At the en

Public Safety committee  To help my colleague's argument, at the end of the day, it may not be illegal to buy them, but it certainly is illegal to obtain them. At the end of the day, if you're in possession of that product, you're in possession of something that's illegal. So that will help you get to th

Public Safety committee  I don't really have the exact answer to your question. All I can tell you is this: if there's a request for transparency, and these products are coming out of publicly traded companies, then they have an obligation, under the proceeds of crime act, to be totally transparent. So

Public Safety committee  You know the problem has been ignored for the last 10 years. So to just mount up the RCMP, have them get their infantry ready, and go marching into the reserves might not be the best solution in this particular climate. In this political climate, when you have land disputes and e

Public Safety committee  First of all, I'm not here supporting any particular government agency. I respect the current government for transparent answers. I took part in a meeting with the Minister of Agriculture, and there was no wishy-washy about it. No, the government is not going to buy out the Canad

Public Safety committee  It would very irresponsible for me personally to sit here and critique law enforcement. I think they have an overwhelming job to do right now. I think they take the tobacco industry very seriously. Maybe they're undermanned; I don't know. I can't answer for law enforcement. Wha

Public Safety committee  I think it's best for the RCMP to comment in their own reports and what they believe, because I would never want to be in a position of contradicting what I believe is a very efficient government agency.

Public Safety committee  I believe that if we don't do something to bring a little more transparency to the industry as a whole, Honourable Member, you're going to have our kids in a very mixed-up state of mind. They are not sure what's legal, what's not legal, and where they're going with things in life