Did you know that there are still smoking rooms inside federal buildings? I was shocked when I heard that there were smoking rooms in the CBC and wondered how they were getting away with it. It seems that there is a loophole in the law and that federal buildings have been exempt.

Shouldn’t the feds have been leading the anti-smoking charge? Doesn’t it strike you as absurd that the very people making and enacting non-smoking legislation are the only ones still smoking in their office buildings? There are 25,740 federally regulated buildings where smoking rooms are still permitted. The banks, although federally regulated banned smoking long ago. They didn’t need a law to show good judgment.

Labour Minister Jean-Pierre Blackburn said that he’s now going to move to prohibit smoking in federal buildings. I’m sure that embarrassment has a lot to do with this sudden action. Until the CBC story broke some weeks ago most of us had no idea that this was going on. Leave it to the feds to always leave themselves a loophole in the law.