National ban on vaping flavours coming ‘soon,’ says addictions minister [Video]

The minister of mental health and addictions says the federal government will ban most vape flavours across Canada soon — more than three years after Ottawa first promised to bring in the regulations.

“We have made a commitment from the start to restrict flavours. We haven’t wavered from that,” Ya’ara Saks told CBC News last week.

“We will have this in place soon. I don’t anticipate this is going to take much longer.” She did not specify a timeline.

Saks’ promise comes after a coalition of anti-tobacco health groups held a press conference in Ottawa earlier this month to call on Saks to introduce the ban swiftly or resign.

They accused her of bowing to vaping industry pressure by failing to finalize the regulations this spring, as the federal government had planned.

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