Plain packaging on tobacco products is headed to Canada. Newly elected Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has indicated that removing trademarks from tobacco products is a priority—part of his government’s healthcare agenda.

In a mandate letter to Canada’s new healthcare minister, Dr. Jane Philpott, Trudeau lists as a “top priority” a plan to “introduce plain packaging requirement for tobacco products, similar to those in Australia and the United Kingdom.”

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