Federal health minister must explain tobacco, marijuana policy discrepancies

There is an opportunity for the federal Health minister to demonstrate that she is serious about the health of Canadians and it isn’t by focusing on excessive and ineffective measures that will only make it easier for illegal traffickers to counterfeit legal products.

Canada's federal Health Minister Jane Philpott, right, pictured April 12 with her assistant deputy minister Hilary Geller at the Senate's Social Affairs Committee. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY ERIC GAGNON

June 5, 2017

The federal Health Minister Jane Philpott has an opportunity to explain why she is exhibiting a disturbing degree of incoherence with her recent approaches to the regulation of tobacco and marijuana. Public explanation is needed as both marijuana and tobacco are addictive substances with known, and...

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