Health committee  Thank you, Madam Chair, for the member's question. The answer is simple too: an integrated plan is a more effective plan. Simply put, a plan that is more integrated, that uses different multimedia technologies, as we've seen from Australia and others, is more effective. While

Health committee  The government, as I understand it, through the minister's statement, has every intention of directing the department to continue to do further work on this, and health warning messages will be part of an integrated strategy. She has asked us to refine those. I believe that was t

Health committee  Thank you. Very briefly, in response to the member's question, we've tabled...and I will reiterate that we had 15 meetings with health NGOs and 16 with industry. We take all meetings. With respect to lobbying, I'm not able to speak to the number of times various people were lo

Health committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. We have two estimates, a high and a low, given that we had provided what information we could given the seven-day response to the request from the committee. To fully satisfy the committee, the timelines have been furnished. We believe the low estimate i

Health committee  The short answer is absolutely. That's part of why the minister, in her remarks at this committee, said it was appropriate to step back at this time and learn from other large public health initiatives with respect to their success, the level of interjurisdictional cooperation, a

Health committee  Absolutely. While it is acknowledged and has been pointed out through public disclosure that the department and my officials take meetings with health NGOs and industry, those meetings were always with respect to the project, the pace of the project, an attempt to further improve

Health committee  Yes. There were a number of images that we worked on with her estate. So there were several images that included Barb Tarbox in the work we did and had tested through POR.

Health committee  As part of our overall advice and research, as Mr. Strang said, we have been working with provinces and territories to try to find a way to leverage the various quit lines that exist in all jurisdictions. We have not fully resolved the issue. There are a number of outstanding con

Health committee  Furthermore, with respect to the number of meetings we had--there's an impression by the committee that we only met with industry. We had 15 face-to-face meetings with industry groups and 16 health groups during the same period.

Health committee  In response to the member's question, absolutely, $3.1 million has been invested. We've made that publicly available. That was to both acquire rights to images that we felt would be appropriate, to test those with different audiences in cities across the country, with different a

Health committee  I'll turn to my colleague, Jane Hazel, who is an expert in this area, Madam Chair.

Health committee  I thank the member for the question. There are a number of elements to it. I'll try to deal with all of those in the order that they were presented. Contraband is an issue that Health Canada is concerned about. But more to the point, Health Canada is concerned about all cigaret

Health committee  Yes, certainly that is one measure. That said, Internet use is skyrocketing at the moment. At the time, that was not one of the measures in the plan. So we have since realized that it is possible to improve our action plan in order to better meet all the challenges that tobacco p

Health committee  Thank you, Madam Chair, for the member's questions. There are a number of points to respond to. First off, the honourable member indicated that this project was stopped dead in its tracks. I believe the minister was eminently clear that this is not the case. She has instructed

Health committee  Furthermore, with respect to the notion that youth buy these cigarettes, that is absolutely correct. We do have research that shows these images, these health warnings that are on current packages, do work for youth, because they are not stale. This is the first time they are see