Thank you, Madam Speaker. Madam Speaker, I was Minister of Finance at the Finance Ministers' meeting when this issue was discussed and I was Minister of Health at the recent Health Ministers' meeting when this issue was discussed. If people are worried that if I have a conflict, Madam Speaker, the Minister of Health wants to save lives and the Minister of Finance wants to save dollars. I think this is a win-win situation. Anyway you cut it, if more people start smoking, we're going to have to pay that price down the road and it's a huge price across Canada. I think we can handle this thing.
I want people to disregard the money issue right now, as far as revenues lost or revenues gained, although they're important. The issue right now is that the cost to us down the road is going to be human lives, it is going to be emphysema, it's going to be lung cancer and heart disease. We have seen a lessening of smoking in the Northwest Territories in the last three years and we want that to continue. One of the ways we can do that is by keeping the price higher. I think that's what we have to keep in mind, the health of our population, because we already do pretty well at smoking and we certainly don't want it to increase. Thank you.