QUESTION PERIOD — Health
Advertising of Vaping Products
December 2, 2025
My question is for the Government Representative.
As some of us know, a number of organizations have been working for years to ban certain vaping products from Canada. These include the Canadian Lung Association, the Canadian Cancer Society and the Heart and Stroke Foundation. These organizations want to restrict flavoured vaping products in particular.
We’ve all seen these products. They come in brightly coloured packages and contain vaping liquids in a range of candy, dessert and fruit flavours. Even the tobacco industry acknowledges that these products target children and should be restricted.
Half of the work has already been done. Restrictions on flavoured vaping products were published in the Canada Gazette nearly five years ago, but they still haven’t been finalized.
Can the Government Representative tell us when the government plans to finalize and implement these restrictions?
Senator Boudreau, thank you for your question. I think everyone knows that there are some extremely difficult and serious public health issues related to vaping products. As you pointed out, a publication has already appeared regarding these regulations. I don’t have any specific information about when the regulations will come into effect, but I will talk to the Minister of Health about it. If a date has been set, I will follow up with your office.
Well, it has been nearly five years, so it’s time to take action.
My province, New Brunswick, banned mint- and menthol-flavoured vaping products. Can the representative tell us whether the government plans to do likewise? I imagine you’ll include this information in your answer to my first question.
I will indeed follow up on that as well. I salute your provincial government’s initiative to ban vaping products, which, I would emphasize once again, are a public health issue that concerns us all.
