Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to thank the honourable Member for Inuvik for representing the department in their presentation to the subcommittee on Health in Ottawa, on our behalf.
Mr. Speaker, I've been informed by the department that the private Member's Bill C-222 would require health warning labels be placed on all alcohol beverage containers sold in Canada. This particular bill has been moved back from the subcommittee into the Standing Committee on Health. The subcommittee has withdrawn this bill for consideration by the subcommittee, and has further recommended that instead the standing committee consider both this bill and another bigger bill which they are contemplating.
They would like to consider the bill in the context of its study of Canada's drug policy, with particular attention to the effective means of increasing awareness of fetal alcohol syndrome. As a result of this motion, Bill C-222 is buried deep in another process and there will be no vote at the committee stage. With the number of issues that this committee, on the study of drug policy, will cover, most of the observers consider that this subcommittee motion is a way of not dealing with the bill, without ever having the committee Members or MPs taking a position on it. Thank you.