Thank you, Madam Speaker. Madam Speaker, looking at the situation in Ontario and Quebec, where people are smuggling cigarettes already into Ontario from Quebec and comparing that situation to the territories, it seems that with direct air links to Montreal, the Baffin region -- and particularly Iqaluit -- may be vulnerable to widespread smuggling. This is predicted by at least one of my constituents who is in the retail business.
I would like to ask the Minister of Finance -- and he's had some conversations with the RCMP in Iqaluit, he said -- is the intention that the Department of Finance and the government, through the RCMP, will be closely monitoring and taking steps to control the incidence of cigarette smuggling in the Baffin and particularly in Iqaluit? Is that the idea behind these consultations with the police? Thank you.