Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The Minister, in response to a question a little earlier this afternoon in the areas of addictions, highlighted the successes we've had with the Tobacco Action Strategy. The groups of volunteers who have come on board with that, the initiatives shown by some of our municipalities, the WCB, and I noticed in some of the information that our colleague, Mr. Roland, provided on revenues, it looks like tobacco tax revenues are decreasing earlier than forecast, which means less product is being sold. So a tremendous success there.
Here is where I want to get into the topic, Mr. Chairman. Then the Minister said what do we do about drinking and alcohol. It's almost daunting, the circumstances there. The Minister then said how do we find those answers out. I just wanted to offer that we already have in play one way that we might be able to get some very effective answers and that is the upcoming review of the Liquor Act. I understand that a call for a contractor has gone out and perhaps the decision has already been made, but that process of going out on a territory-wide consultation, I am hopeful, Mr. Chairman, will generate some discussion, some debate and some input and hopefully some really constructive ideas on what our communities want to see done about the way we manage alcohol as a government. Also, Mr. Chairman, about the way we look at our mandate to promote awareness, to help people be educated about the impacts about alcohol, but also, as the Minister has been stressing, to help people be able to make responsible decisions when they choose to use something like alcohol.
I believe the government has sadly underfunded and under resourced the responsibility to do this with alcohol, but I am really looking at this upcoming review of the Liquor Act as a very good way of finding out from the communities and from the frontlines how they would like us to go about that. So I offer that, Mr. Chairman, as a
potential way of getting some answers to a very big question. I will stop there. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.