Health committee  Our members meet and exceed the law of Canada. Our companies meet and exceed the law of any jurisdiction they are selling products in--absolutely.

Health committee  They sell products into California. Yes, they meet proposition 65. However, what has happened in our experience on proposition 65 is that there tends to be over-labelling. The companies don't want to be sued. This is specifically with reference to food companies, which have been

Health committee  Yes.

Health committee  Yes, but this is Canada, and we have CCCR. We do not have a hazard-based type of classification. We're a very different society from California and Europe.

Health committee  What type of chronic labelling are you looking for? Because in Europe they have GHS, which is different. There hasn't been any kind of commitment here yet as to what GHS would look like in Canada. As I said, our position has been that we support GHS and chronic labelling; however

Health committee  No. I don't have anything off the top of my head with respect to the costs. That law has been in place for about twenty years, from what I understand. However, I do know that in the last ten years a great deal of the focus has been on litigation with respect to food products and

Health committee  No.

Health committee  With respect to the lead in toys, for example, the situation we were faced with a year ago was that there was lead in toys. I don't think, by having a labelling provision for lead, the companies that illegally used lead and put it in toys would label for it. I just think there's

Health committee  I wouldn't expect it to be in the product.

Health committee  Then the government should take it off the market.

Health committee  Thank you for your question. I was all prepared for you to ask something about GHS.

Health committee  I'll tie that in. What we're saying is that consumers have a right to know. They have a right to the appropriate information on labels. We have precautionary labelling in this country. We've had it for 40 years. All I'm saying is that if we're going to move to a different typ

Health committee  The provision that was included in Bill C-51 was that “No person shall--knowing information to be false or being reckless as to its truth--communicate or cause to be communicated that information with the intent to cause a reasonable apprehension in others” that a consumer produc

Health committee  As for an example, I don't have one right off the top of my head with respect to human health, but there are particular products that are attacked in the marketplace. They're attacked, and the statements made about those products are inaccurate, and they could cause harm if they'

Health committee  Yes.