Relayed
by GLOBALink
The International Tobacco-Control Network
by Broadcast
News Source: Halifax (NS) Daily News, 2002-05-24, via tobacco.org
Region:CANADA Category: Smokefree Policies
URL: http://www.canada.com/halifax/story.asp?id=%7B383DE34D-50F6-4846-
B6E7-65CAF61F9551%7D
HALIFAX
- The Nova Scotia government continues to filibuster its own
anti-smoking bill today. One by one, Tories are standing up
to talk at length, to run out the clock. They're trying to prevent
one of their own backbenchers, Barry Barnet, from tabling an
amendment that would change the bill from a partial smoking
ban to a full one.
This morning,
Tory MLA Cecil Clarke used up time by running off a list of
things the government has done in the past to combat tobacco
use, such as raising cigarette taxes. Meanwhile, the opposition
parties say they will vote against the bill, which will come
to a vote sometime next week.
The Liberals
and NDP say they cannot support exemptions that will allow smoking
in casinos, as well as in bars and restaurants in limited form.
The NDP plans to table its own bill that would see smoking banned
in all public places. But like Barnet's bill, the NDP's is very
unlikely to ever see the light of day.
