Finance committee  I'm not sure that I fully understand the question. In an earlier comment, you made it about wine. Wine is actually defined as a product of fully or partially fermented grape juice. That precludes a number of the products that you have talked about, and I believe that under this b

Finance committee  I'll gladly address that. First of all, all wines produced in Canada are actually listed with the province in which they are produced. That province may not take possession of it, but in British Columbia you can't sell a product from your cellar door without its being registere

Finance committee  On your first question about 100% Canadian, my opinion would be that it wouldn't be trade legal. I'm not sure that Dan understood the question. The reason I believe it wouldn't be trade legal is that you wouldn't be treating the foreign wine in the same way, because we would exc

Finance committee  There is an opportunity, but it's a little challenging. If you have a group of really small producers, how do you go to the market with a large quantity to fulfill, such as the American market, where they have 10 times our Canadian population? You have to take niche markets, whic

Finance committee  I can answer that question for you. I have dealt with U.S. importers. For them to do any kind of a marketing program for a single SKU, they want 5,000 cases of that single SKU in year one. I can tell you that in British Columbia, if you drew a line of the 200 wineries that prod

Finance committee  Thank you. I'm Harry McWatters and I'm the president of the Vintage Consulting Group. I've earned my living in the wine business for almost 45 years as a producer, grower, and consultant, and I was the founding chairman of VQA Canada. Some of the things I'd like to address he