Health committee  I'd just like to add that this was a very transparent process. The government put out its proposals in a public discussion process. There were private meetings held with us, but for the most part it was done through the standard government consultation process.

Health committee  Innovations to find a novelty for novelty marketing, which is increasingly part of their marketing, is a significant issue and one that needs a fast government response. One of the proposals made, in fact, to this committee earlier, when they were looking at a prior version of th

Health committee  I would like to say that what I read in the media about the level of contraband does not fit with what I read from others. There are a number of indicators that show that the contraband problem is getting less and less.... Philip Morris International I don't think misleads its sh

Health committee  I don't know the exact date—it's on the record of communications—but I met with someone in the section after May 26, I believe, and at that time, the impression I had was that the file was in trouble and there was lots of correspondence, but I did not get the feeling they'd given

Health committee  When I was listening to the testimony in the last hour, I was reminded of what I remember, as I'm getting older, of the situation in the sixties, seventies, and early eighties, when there wasn't political will to support tobacco control or clamp down on tobacco marketing. Health

Health committee  I'd say that the one proposal of the Cancer Society is vitally important, because it gives the government a belt and suspenders approach for the future. I'd say the one I'm proposing is vitally important because it'll change the tobacco products on the market tomorrow.

Health committee  How about banana splits? These are actually designed not to smoke directly, but to use to smoke your marijuana joint. I'll open one and pass them around--

Health committee  I'm not smoking. I'll pass it around to you. Who'd have thought? It's marketed for people to roll their joint in and smoke. The danger is that about the same number of people are--

Health committee  About the same number of kids are smoking dope as are smoking cigarettes, and it's a terrible thing to put smoke in your lungs. It does enormous amounts of damage, even forgetting the psychological effects. The danger with this, of course, is that you get cross-addiction, so th

Health committee  This takes us back to the beginning of the Hazardous Products Act. In 1969 when it was brought in, another committee was going on at the same time, called the Isabelle committee. They were receiving all the information about the health hazards of smoking and they were trying to f

Health committee  A stronger Tobacco Act is something I think we would all love to see. What we can tell you is that there's no inkling that there's one in development. The current Tobacco Act falls short of our international obligations under the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. It fall

Health committee  Thank you very much for the opportunity to explain again, or more clearly, what a difference it would make. The responsibilities on manufacturers under the Tobacco Act and those under the proposed Bill C-6 are vastly different. Under the Tobacco Act, you can put anything on t

Health committee  Thank you very much. I see Bill C-6 as a bit of an historic opportunity. It's not very often that Parliament receives legislation as powerful as this: legislation that creates a whole new framework for corporate responsibility and removes some of the leg irons from health inspe