Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Thank you to our witnesses here today.
There was a bit of discussion about resources, Mr. Mayers. I want to make it clear to you that if Mr. Easter had that $12 billion, I can guarantee you wouldn't be getting any of it. He'd be using it to go and take our babies and put in institutions or something.
On the fact about having resources and what have you, you can have all the resources in the world, if the will isn't there to make the changes necessary.... And I think that's a true statement.
One thing has been made very clear to me and this committee, I believe, over the days: using any part of the package as part of determining “Product of Canada” is no longer acceptable. I think that's definitely where we start. Where we come up with a percentage, whether it's 51% or whatever, anything and everything has to be part of it, without considering the packaging.
Ms. Bryanton, you made a comment there; you said “We look for truth in labelling”. You said also that it must not be misleading.
I've used an example here before. I drink grapefruit juice all the time. I've yet to find where grapefruit are grown in Canada, but I can tell you that the jug of grapefruit juice I buy says “Product of Canada” on it. That is misleading, right off the bat, because as Mr. Easter said, when people see something like that they take it that the product, not the packaging, came from Canada. How could you ever justify defending that as being a “Product of Canada”?