International Trade committee  The definition of a label was proposed to be changed in this act, and it was designed to separate it from the packaging because we're now putting in provisions to deal with unregistered products that may be in transit. The idea was to harmonize label definitions, and we looked at

International Trade committee  Yes, all those things are there, but—

International Trade committee  Not in the development of this bill, no. After it was tabled, we did hear from them that they had expressed concern that perhaps it was expanding the scope of the label beyond what they were comfortable with, but we did discuss and explain to them where the origins were and what

International Trade committee  They still have their concerns, but we've expressed what we intend to do with the labelling.

International Trade committee  They can speak for themselves.

International Trade committee  During the development of the bill itself, there was not consultation in advance. It was all in reaction to implementation of the trade facilitation agreement. We had consultation once the bill was introduced into Parliament. There was a technical briefing to allow for industry t

International Trade committee  Sure. As I said, the last time the Pest Control Products Act was revised, in 2002, the definition of “label” was combined somewhat with packaging. Packaging was designed to include a label. In order to facilitate the regulation of packaging for goods in transit, we separated thos

International Trade committee  The reference specifically in that section of the act was removed and just went with the more generic term of product safety information. We've always used “MSDS” as the term, but then when GHS, the globally harmonized system, was introduced, it became “safety data sheets”, and s

International Trade committee  For that particular provision of the TFA, the bill that we're looking at now only amends the Pest Control Products Act and the Food and Drugs Act with respect to the prohibitions that are currently in place. This is because we have a free market system that requires that the prod

International Trade committee  When the definition was changed, it was based on legal precedents set over the years. The definition of “person” was actually taken from the Criminal Code. We've modified the definition of “person” through several pieces of legislation to refer to “person” as in the definition in

International Trade committee  Thank you. The inclusion of the word “prescribed” would limit the authorities we would have around labelling to those elements that are in the regulations, so we would be limited more than we are currently. Currently, there is authority under section 8 of the act for the ministe

International Trade committee  Since the bill was introduced, we have had a number of conversations with stakeholders about this, about their concerns. Part of it is trying to reconcile the fact that, yes, the definition of “label” may be larger than it was before but the elements are coming out of “package”.

International Trade committee  I'll just get the right wording. In the definition that was proposed, the words “belongs to” were included. The other words in the language refer to labels that would accompany or be in physical proximity to the product. Adding the words “belongs to” gave us the flexibility to r

International Trade committee  In the definition that was provided in the bill, the words “belongs to” were placed there to facilitate that electronic label. It's wording that is used in the Food and Drugs Act, for example, in their definition of “label”, and by including that wording in the definition, it all

International Trade committee  In the definition in the act...?