Thank you.
Last week I raised with the witnesses the question of some of the labelling I found when I went to the grocery store. You may have seen it. Some of the packaging had claims that the products were organic Atlantic salmon or haddock made in Canada from domestic and imported ingredients, which I found a little confusing. Of course, the very popular shrimp rings we all buy just said “Product of Vietnam”, which told me absolutely nothing about where it was caught, how it was caught or how it was processed.
The defence of that was that these are all the voluntary elements of the program, which obviously don't help consumers very much to figure out what it is. I'm wondering if all three witnesses could comment on that experience and what they're looking for in the precision of labelling to help consumers know that what they are buying is actually what's in the box or the package.
Ms. Thurston can go first, then Ms. Dawson and Professor Hanner.