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Agriculture committee I think that would possibly be appropriate, yes.
April 17th, 2008Committee meeting
Mel Fruitman
Agriculture committee Certainly a product in which you can uniquely identify the items...as I said, mixed vegetables, where you may have peas, carrots, corn, or something in it and you can identify each of those, and there's no blending together of them. For all of those products to be labelled “Product of Canada”, at least 75%, say, or maybe as high as 90% or 100% should be grown in Canada.
April 17th, 2008Committee meeting
Mel Fruitman
Agriculture committee Yes, it should be a very high percentage when we're talking about food and about cases where you can clearly identify what the ingredient is. So if it's a can of peaches, those peaches should absolutely be grown in Canada. If it's peaches and apples, or whatever might be mixed together, then it should be perhaps slightly less than 100%.
April 17th, 2008Committee meeting
Mel Fruitman
Agriculture committee I'd like to jump in, please. This is why I mentioned in my opening remarks the need to consider what the purpose of this marketing is--when we start confusing the two reasons. One is economic, and one is safety and security concerns, and I think they need to be kept separate.
April 17th, 2008Committee meeting
Mel Fruitman
Agriculture committee Yes, generally we would not have a problem, again, as long as it is quite clear. I understand there have been some other possible terms thrown out for use. No matter what conclusion is come to, those terms have to be clear. They have to be well defined. What they actually mean has to be able to be understood by consumers.
April 17th, 2008Committee meeting
Mel Fruitman
Agriculture committee Thank you, Mr. Chair. The Consumers' Association of Canada is pleased to have this opportunity to present its views to the committee. For over 60 years the CAC has represented the interests of ordinary Canadians in their role as consumers of goods and services, as provided by both the public and private sectors.
April 17th, 2008Committee meeting
Mel Fruitman