Excise Act   that there are law breakers that have to be stopped. It has chosen to lower the price of cigarettes. That is a far cry from enforcing the law. In reality I can imagine criminals on seeing a precedent set like this, saying: "Okay, let's look for the next one and see if we can get them to move

Excise Act  Mr. Speaker, I do not know if the previous speaker managed to convince himself after the fact, as his government is now trying to do, but he would like to convince us that the decision that was made was the right one. I think that the government lowered taxes on cigarettes

Excise Act   smuggling of heroine and hard drugs. We have it now. If the government is not going to enforce the laws, it will continue to have smuggling of these contraband items. Lowering the taxes of one item is not going to stop smuggling.

Excise Act   a job at the minimum wage or will these people go somewhere else and smuggle other products? Are we again going to lower those taxes to do away with that issue? Now we have lost revenue and probably created a health problem. When are we going to address the issue of law enforcement

Excise Act  Mr. Speaker, it is fair to say a reduction in the excise tax alone, disregarding anything else in lowering the price of a commodity would obviously make it more attractive to the marketplace. The hon. member's premise, however, is that having reduced the excise taxes

Excise Act  Mr. Speaker, there has been a lot of conversation since the lowering of the taxes on cigarettes that the government is losing money. Taking into consideration the fact that 75 per cent of the cigarettes smoked in Quebec were contraband and 35 to 40 per cent in Ontario were

Excise Act  Mr. Speaker, I appreciate that question. It is a well founded question. What I was trying to point out is that after having 167 million pounds of production quota and another 5.5 million pounds over that, farmers are going to be forced to take a lower price for tobacco

Excise Act  Thank you, Mr. Speaker, for that correction. I will start again. Pardon the oversight. It is the young people who unfortunately have been buying these lower priced contraband cigarettes. As a result, more and more young people are being exposed to tobacco because

Excise Act   looked at the whole package. We looked at the effect of lowering the tax. We looked at the concern from the health groups. We put together a whole package. I would like the hon. member's comments.

Excise Act   of our youth to tobacco products, high taxes. I challenge members opposite me and all my colleagues on this side of the House to recognize the wisdom of this measure. As a young adult recently said to me, the government should raise taxes on those things that are bad for us and lower

Excise Act   that young people start smoking. Those packages have a special appeal for young people because they look attractive and their price is lower than that of regular packages. They are more affordable for young people who do not have much money, and younger people find them easier to hide

Excise Act  , 22 per cent of males and almost 30 per cent of females are smoking. Also, 65 per cent of these teenagers are paying for their cigarettes out of their own pockets. Any public policy, whether it is non inaction in fighting smuggling or lowering taxes on tobacco, if not linked

Supply   with the inclusion of nine new municipalities. For example, in this map readjustment project, for most of the rural ridings, where in the past the number of voters was lowered to compensate for the vast territory-as was the case in my own riding of Bellechasse-this weight coefficient by which

Young Offenders Act   part of a juvenile car theft ring that has stolen more than 100 cars in the last four months. The authorities could not oblige Mike's mother, Bonnie, because Mike is only 10 years old. I ask the Deputy Prime Minister this: Will this government lower the age limits of the Young

Environment  , lower sperm count, an increased incidence of breast cancer, and a decreased learning capacity among school age children are all cases in point. In view of this report, does the government intend to ban the dumping of chlorine in the Great Lakes by Canadian industries?