Health committee  Do you have any details on that?

Health committee  The fact is that without the regulatory framework in place at this point, those products are not prohibited from import or use by whomever.

Health committee  I'll jump in because I think it's pretty straightforward from my perspective. I want to clarify that the regulation would not, as I understand it, aim for 1%. That's the intake-level objective of the regulation. The regulation should follow the report recommendations of 2% for

Health committee  I think it would be conjecture at best for us to try to answer that question, so I don't know.

Health committee  I'm sorry, I'm going to have to ask you to repeat the question. I didn't quite catch it all.

Health committee  For reducing trans fat?

Health committee  We've been engaged in that process for a number of years now and we have made significant progress across the industry. What I tried to say earlier is that there are certain segments within our industry that have had some challenges with respect to securing trans-free supply, so

Health committee  I'm sorry, but I have to take exception. The data are actually very clear. They are not mine. They are factual. The information is from the Health Canada trans fat data--

Health committee  Okay, well, I would take exception from that position, then.

Health committee  Let me be very clear: it's actually not so much in and among our members. The fact is that Canada's current food regulatory regime only permits local jurisdictions--a health regional authority, a municipality, or a province--to focus regulatory efforts around this kind of issue o

Health committee  Thank you very much. It's nice to see everybody around the table again today. Thanks for having us back twice this week. Thank you, Madam Chair and committee members. It's a pleasure to be here. As you know, the Canadian Restaurant and Foodservices Association is a $60 billion

Health committee  Very briefly, I want to underscore that one of the central tenets of this entire undertaking is that we are looking at a long-term gradual approach to reduce sodium for many reasons that we've already talked about and that I won't revisit.

Health committee  We believe so.

Health committee  While I'm not a spokesperson for the sodium working group, nor can I speak on behalf of Health Canada, it is my understanding that there will be a report issued shortly. We will have that report out in the public domain. It could be a great document for us to centre some communic

Health committee  Sure. Well, I think the first threat is that if we don't have consumer acceptance of our products—which goes to your point earlier, Ms. Davidson—you may just drive consumers to add salt post-purchase. So if we're trying to achieve a public health outcome, which is reduce Canadi