March 11, 1977 (30th Parliament, 2nd Session)

Mr. Bruce Halliday (Oxford):

Mr. Speaker, in view of the absence of the Minister of National Health and Welfare, perhaps I could direct my question to his parliamentary secretary who, I think, will be knowledgeable about a matter which his department has had under review for some three or four years. Can he tell us why the minister and his department chose to be inconsistent with respect to the policy of banning
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saccharin as compared to its policy on tobacco under which he chose to have an appropriate warning placed on the consumer package?