The Minister for Health and Children should be applauded in his efforts to prohibit smoking. In Canada, where the prohibition on public smoking is in vogue in almost all the cities I visited, people had a good time in the pubs without smoking. They informed me that the bar trade had initially cut down slightly, but that the table trade, where people were eating, had gone up and this made up for it. I did not meet one member of staff in either Ottawa or Halifax who was not glad that the ban had been introduced. I hope the Minister for Health and Children persists with his intentions in respect of this area.