Thanks very much, Madam Chair.
Thank you for appearing before us again. It's great to see everyone once again.
I want to come back to the labelling issue. It's the one thing that I hear consistently from constituents, the misunderstanding of labelling or the inability to understand the labelling. I know that we were the first country to have the mandatory requirements, and it was only in the end of 2007.
But one of the biggest problems that is relayed to me is the fact that there is no standardization of the serving size. I'm always asked who determines what the serving size should be. I had somebody come to me the other day who had two packages of cookies. They were reading them and they were saying, “Oh, this one is better than this one.” Once you read the labels closely, one was for seven cookies and one was for three. So it totally reversed the expectation of which one was better and which one was worse.
Who determines the serving size? And if Health Canada did some standardized ones, why are they being changed so drastically? These were not drastically different cookies; they were all supposed to be low-sugar cookies. They were supposed to be what the constituent determined to be a healthier choice.
So that's one question. What do you have in the works to further improve the food labelling process, if anything?