Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank everybody for coming today.
As usual on this issue, it was very interesting, with a lot of agreement and understanding on where we're going with some of these things.
I was doing a little bit of reading and research on the act and the regulations regarding basic labelling requirements. It was interesting to read in all the documents that all the information on food labels must be true and not misleading or deceptive. This should be the standard that we, as Canadian consumers, expect and should get out of our labelling process. But it is clearly not what we've been hearing here over the last few meetings, and it's clearly not what we're getting.
I want to get to more of your recommendations, to some of the things you'd like to see done.
Mr. Friesen, I've read a few articles in which you state that it's a big concern to our farmers, because it's tough to compete against production that does not have the same high standards as we have here in Canada. Once again, I agree with your comments on that.
Do you know the exact date when these regulations were changed? Roughly when were these regulations last changed? It's something we've been asking around here.