Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, somewhere around a year ago, there was a big hoopla about the tobacco tax. The federal government had dropped its taxes, the provinces dropped their taxes and the territories kept its taxes on cigarettes high. There were all kinds of questions that came out of that about whether that was going to continue for very long. Over the past few months, I've heard bits and pieces about what is happening. I would like to direct a question to the Minister of Finance dealing with the tobacco tax. The first question I want to ask is if this tobacco tax applies to all tobacco products: cigars, pipe tobacco, loose tobacco, snuff, the works.
Tony Whitford on Question 219-12(7): Tobacco Tax
In the Legislative Assembly on March 2nd, 1995. See this statement in context.
Question 219-12(7): Tobacco Tax
Item 6: Oral Questions
March 1st, 1995
Page 412
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