Finance committee  Right now, while there are provincial minimum ages for 18 or 19, or 21 in P.E.I., for vaping product sales, there's none if you import it, so that's just a gap that's being felt. We need to have effective administration for an expensive vaping tax to prevent youth vaping. Just

Finance committee  It should raise $66 million per year, which is the entire cost of the strategy. The government may do it in phases and start with part of that.

Finance committee  Certainly, it has been urged for a long time. When it was applied to the cannabis fee, it really raised the profile of the possibility here in Parliament about how it could be done for tobacco as well, and now for vaping products.

Finance committee  I don't really have a good answer. Certainly, we've urged for it for a long time. It makes sense. It provides revenue for the government. The tobacco industry should be accountable for this. We're very glad it's coming forward now. The next step, when this bill passes, will be t

Finance committee  They have been lobbying against these provisions in this bill, including in their appearance before the Senate committee, in their written brief there and in their written submission to this committee.

Finance committee  Mr. Chair and members of the committee, thank you for this opportunity. My name is Rob Cunningham. I'm a lawyer and senior policy analyst for the Canadian Cancer Society. My testimony will focus on the provisions in Bill C-59 for the cost recovery fee for tobacco and vaping com

Health committee  Yes. That is something that we've been urging for over many years. In the last federal election, it was in the platforms of the Liberal and Conservative parties and the NDP. It's a way to hold the tobacco industry accountable. The $66 million for the federal tobacco strategy wou

Health committee  With respect to vaping, while smoking among boys and girls has been going down, we've had a dramatic increase in youth vaping. What could be done by the minister is to finalize regulations to ban flavours in e-cigarettes other than tobacco flavour. There's a draft regulation that

Health committee  I do want to point out that there is a federal tax on e-cigarettes that helps reduce vaping among kids. The companies are undermining that with these disposable e-cigarettes that started out with 500 puffs. Then they brought forward 1,500 puffs, and then they brought forward 5,00

Health committee  Thank you. We're urging in the short term that the health minister require that nicotine pouches be prescription only so that they will still be available for sale, or temporarily suspend their sale until federal and provincial regulatory legislative frameworks are in place. Tha

Health committee  Thank you, Dr. Ellis and Mrs. Goodridge, for your public statements on this. You were very concerned. B.C. and Quebec now only allow them to be sold in pharmacies behind the counter. We need national action, essentially, throughout Canada. In those two provinces, they can be sol

Health committee  Thirty per cent of cancer deaths are caused by smoking. Among women, it's not just lung cancer and colorectal cancer but also cervical cancer and ovarian cancer. There are 16 types of cancer altogether that are caused by smoking.

Health committee  The good news is that we are seeing a decrease in smoking among both women and girls, so the overall lung cancer death rates are now decreasing among women. They've been decreasing among men for a very long time. It's a tragedy in terms of the increase in smoking and the increase

Finance committee  That's correct. It's the leading preventable cause of death in Canada, 30% of cancer deaths but also heart disease and stroke and respiratory diseases. It's an enormous public health issue that remains and there is a lot that we can do about it. The tobacco tax increase will help

Finance committee  Certainly a lot has been done. We've made tremendous progress. Smoking prevalence in Canada has decreased from 50% in 1965 to 15% in 2019, but we still have 4.7 million Canadians who smoke and the government does have an objective of under 5% tobacco use by 2035. The government h