I have six minutes on the clock left, thank you. I’d like to ask the Minister when we would partner or collaborate with other jurisdictions to proceed down this path, supposing we get to that where we’re going to try and recover health care costs, are the actions of our government going to be judged and the question asked what did we do to mitigate damages ourselves? I would suggest that other jurisdictions have far more proactive legislation rules when it comes to this, like, for example, people smoking in their vehicles with the windows rolled up and their children in there. I mean, it’s a well known fact that health effects of second-hand smoke that will manifest themselves, surface later in life. Sometimes they are tracked back to children who are exposed to second-hand smoke. We don’t have the most up-to-date kind of rules over those kinds of protections. I mean, would it come back on the GNWT and say, yes, you do have high health care costs related to smoking, but what did you do as a jurisdiction to mitigate the harm of tobacco through cessation programs, through protection of children, through whatever we could do, prevention measures. Would we be judged on what we did or did not do in relation to the success of such a lawsuit? Thank you.
Jane Groenewegen on Committee Motion 28-16(6): Amend Subclause 10(2) Of Bill 10, Carried
In the Legislative Assembly on August 23rd, 2011. See this statement in context.
Committee Motion 28-16(6): Amend Subclause 10(2) Of Bill 10, Carried
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
August 22nd, 2011
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