Frank Valeriote at the Agriculture and Agri-Food Committee

I just want to follow up on a question Malcolm asked. He mentioned buying from a local brewery, a microbrewery, a kind of beer that might have something different in it—I don't know what—which may not meet the definition of beer, I thought I heard him say. And yet he is able to buy it at a local pub on tap. Are you saying that the problem is because of the definition, that while he may be able to buy that on tap, and locally, and probably consider it beer, you can't move it from province to province because of the definition? There's no all-embracing definition of beer that would recognize it as beer. What's the problem here?