Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to recognize a very special person in the gallery today and if you will bear with me, I'd like to say a few words about her.

Heather Crowe worked for 40 years as a waitress in different cities in Eastern Canada. For much of her career, she worked 60 hours a week to provide for herself and her daughter. Ms. Crowe has never smoked and never lived with a smoker but, as Heather herself says, "the air was blue with tobacco smoke where I worked."

Ottawa's 2001 bylaw banning smoking in workplaces including restaurants came too late for Heather. In the spring of 2002, she was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. In the fall of 2002, she was awarded compensation from the Ontario Workplace Safety Insurance Board that accepted her claim that lung cancer was caused by life-long occupational exposure to tobacco smoke. She's now the subject of a powerful Health Canada advertising campaign calling people's attention to the dangers of second hand smoke. Ms. Crowe has said, "I want to be the last person to die from second hand smoke at work." She is now doing volunteer work with Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada actively campaigning to help create smoke-free workplaces everywhere in Canada. Along with Ms. Crowe, Mr. Speaker, are Neil Collishaw with the Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada and also Shawn McCann, a public relations officer with the Workers' Compensation Board. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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