Thank you, Madam Chair. The tobacco reduction and the Butthead campaigns have earned accolades, and deservedly so. An area that, Madam Chair, I believe we've chronically undershot here is an area where we should be doing much more prevention promotion is alcohol use. Something that, regrettably, our government has not undertaken in a very serious way at all is a focussed campaign on alcohol abuse and its consequences. So I'm wondering where we are, Madam Chair, in addressing this enormously expensive and damaging social consequence, or social aspect, of our behaviour up here. Can we or when are we going to begin to look at alcohol in the same way, Madam Chair, as the department has so successfully looked at tobacco as something that we can do something and make a difference, Madam Chair?
Bill Braden on Item 16: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on February 20th, 2006. See this statement in context.
Item 16: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Item 16: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
February 19th, 2006
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