Thank you, Madam Chair.
I think everybody around the table has the same objective in not having children get addicted to tobacco and begin smoking. But it sounds like there are differences of opinion as to whether this bill is going to accomplish that in an optimal way or not.
Good public policy really includes proper consultation with all of the groups affected. That's one concern I have. For example, it was on June 9 that we're hearing you put some ideas forward to the clerk. I heard from two of the previous presenters absolutely and emphatically that they were not consulted. In fact, one of the groups only found out about this bill the night it was being tabled by the minister.
Mr. O'Shea, you may have a different experience. Did you feel fully and properly consulted, with the same positive experience you had when you had input into the Tobacco Act regulations the first time around?