I want to thank all witnesses for coming to meet committee members on the last day of our hearings on this matter. I wish to thank the two witnesses who addressed the committee and started their comments in French. I really appreciated it.
My colleague, the member for Rivière-des-Mille-Îles, introduced a bill on the mandatory labelling of GMOs. Yesterday, Mr. Perron’s bill was rejected by a vote in the House.
Since the standard on voluntary labelling of the GMOs was put in place, consumers are hardly more informed than they were before the standard was introduced.
Don't you think a standard should be mandatory rather than voluntary if the goal is to better inform consumers?