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Health minister accused of stalling on no-smoking plan
Jump to full article: Canada.com (ca), 2003-05-28
Author: Andy Ogle / The Edmonton Journal
Intro: A coalition of health groups, non-smoking action groups and public service unions is running full-page ads in the Edmonton Journal and The Globe and Mail today denouncing what it calls backpedalling by Health Minister Anne McLellan on federal plans to curb smoking.
The ad, in the form of an open letter to McLellan, asks why a landmark tobacco-control strategy, announced two years ago by then-health minister Allan Rock and former finance minister Paul Martin, has stalled. "You have been backpedalling on a number of issues," says the ad, timed for World No-Tobacco Day on Saturday and endorsed by 29 organizations across the country.
It takes McLellan to task on five issues. . .
But McLellan, who hadn't seen the ad Tuesday but had been informed of its contents, said her government is doing more and spending more on tobacco control than any of its predecessors.
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