Tories support Big Tobacco

Slipped into yesterday's federal budget slash was a cut of $10.8M First Nations and Inuit Tobacco Control Strategy.

The reason was as follows: Programs that weren’t providing good value for money for Canadians.

Cutting tobacco control funding is not smart. Particularly because aboriginal communities already score the lowest in Canada on most health indicators.

Particularly because they have the youngest demographic population in Canada and the highest birth rate.

Particularly because of the role tobacco plays in aborginal culture - you just can't deal with it the same way you do in other cultures.

And big tobacco must be laughing.