Vaping and nicotine pouches are the best weapons against smoking yet Ottawa wants to regulate them as if they are as harmful as tobacco

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Bureaucracy’s first rule is to sustain itself. Whether in the private, non-profit or government sectors, bureaucracies make themselves appear indispensable, praise their past performance and seek ways to lay responsibility for shortcomings onto groups underneath them in the power pyramid.

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For example, the country’s federal health bureaucrats last month published a 15-page piece of self-promotion titled Delivering Results: Advancing Canada’s Tobacco Strategy. In it, our health warriors tick the usual boxes: respect for Indigenous peoples, delivery of truckloads of tax dollars to other bureaucracies and self-congratulation for both the decline in smoking and, more generally, the self-reportedly herculean efforts of Ottawa’s best to improve life for Canadians.

One ominous innovation for a supposedly science-based organization: no mention of the large body of scientific evidence that does not support Health Canada’s current agenda of excessively controlling non-tobacco........

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