Do you think that's a fair direction for us to proceed? If we can't get what we want in one way, we can get it another way, but it seems that the processors and the further processors always seem to get their way. The farmer feels left out of it; he's always at the point where he's taking the wholesale price for his product, and he has no recourse to finding a market price that's satisfactory.
We talked earlier about standardization. The name “processed cheese” is standardized, yet this was one of the concerns we had when we brought in the dairy terms.
The consumers are expecting that certain products are made, in this case, with cheese. The current situation is allowing the use of a qualifier product with a standardized name to name the food, while the food is not produced according to a process that is in the regulations, therefore misleading the consumers.
The role of CFIA is to stop this kind of practice, and I guess this takes us back to what we tried to do last year. The CFIA, I don't think, was very complimentary of our view that we should be going forward with that. I'm not sure that all parties at the table were, but we did as a committee agree to move forward under Bill C-27.
Would you be in agreement to seeing Bill C-27 come back in the current form it left this committee a year ago?