Health committee  You've got a heat source, you've got dairy product sources, and you've got imported product sources, so when you're looking at these target values and reporting back on a 1.4%, let's just understand what the basket is. If we're also looking at the food service business, let's m

Health committee  I think the evidence has shown that to be the case, absolutely. From an industry point of view, it's just interesting that 20 years ago we saw the natural saturated products as being evil, and we legislated them completely out. That was palm oil and lard. Twenty years later, when

Health committee  I would like to correct myself. When I commented, I was referring to saturated fats. In terms of trans fats, whether natural or provided through industry, at this point we would assume they're the same, or we don't know. I was thinking of saturated fats.

Health committee  Yes, please do.

Health committee  I think the question of how low you go really depends on what's in the shopping basket. That's a large part of it. This morning people got up and had a glass of milk, and maybe on the way to work they stopped off at a very large national chain doughnut store. Well, gee whiz, th

Health committee  I was on a roll.

Health committee  I think it would be in line with what we were describing. We would like to understand the limit exactly. Let's say the regulation does go forward; that's wonderful, but what basis is it for your shopping basket? I think that's one of the issues with regulation. When you regulat

Health committee  Our recommendation, if regulation does go forward, is to understand.... We don't have a clear position in favour of regulation or not, but if regulation does go forward, we really have to understand what the game rules are and how they are enforced. Putting in regulations that ar

Health committee  No, no. We do not have an opinion on whether it's enforced or not. We do not have an opinion on that, because we offer options that.... This is really a decision about what ingredients the end user is providing. I think our position is that if enforcement does go forward, it's ve

Health committee  Perhaps I can help. The change in the seed varieties, certainly with canola, has been extraordinary. The major national food service accounts in Canada are now generally using identity-preserved canola. It is a high-oleic, low-linolenic canola that has the same properties in ter

Health committee  I'd like to comment just generally on the baking trade. We are involved with many parts of it, so I see many parts of it. I was also involved with our U.S. business for many years. Actually, the Canadian bakery group should take special credit. In many cases, transition to a hi

Health committee  This has been problematic for a number of years in terms of how Canada deals with borders. This is something our company deals with all the time. Border crossings and cross-border products are problematic. As was pointed out, there have been some very substantial improvements m