Agriculture committee  On your first question about the 51%, the debate comes down to content versus value. The members of this committee have heard from a number of agriculture producer groups that think it should be content. A lot of folks spend a lot of time and money building state-of-the-art, clea

Agriculture committee  Yes, definitely, because the principles in that bill are around a level playing field and accountability. I would caution, though, to follow up on Anne's point, that when we're talking about a lot of the issues that the committee has been looking at, in this study and others, tha

Agriculture committee  Perhaps I can just follow up on that--very briefly, so that I don't eat into your time. There's a movement afoot here in that consumers are interested in food, and labelling is top of mind. But parliamentarians need to remember that if you add additional labelling requirements

Agriculture committee  On your first point, Canada has some of the most progressive food labelling rules in the world. The nutrition facts panel we have on food in Canada is only very recent; it came into place just a few years ago, and the rest of the world looks at it. The health committee was looki

Agriculture committee  Thanks very much, Mr. Chairman and members of the committee. It's a great pleasure to be here today. I thank you for inviting us to appear. Food and Consumer Products of Canada is the national industry association that represents the manufacturers of food, beverage, and consumer

Industry committee  I can take that one. Are you speaking about agriculture pesticide rules for minor-use pesticides? I'm certainly aware that there are differences in Canadian and American rules for the use of minor-use pesticides, but that's not an area of expertise that our association, as manu

Industry committee  If I could just add to that, the point we're trying to leave members of the committee with is that the largest potential growth area for food manufacturing in the world is in the area of functional foods. Those are foods with higher scientific profiles. There has been value added

Industry committee  I'm sorry, has the minister said anything publicly? Well, we've met with Minister Strahl and his officials on an ongoing basis since he's been sworn in. His department is focused right now on the next round of agricultural policy, the APF II, which is the federal-provincial envel

Industry committee  Thank you very much. I'll give you two concrete examples, in a very quick way, that speak to the lost opportunity for our sector, and also for the health of Canadians and for the agricultural sector as well. There's a Canadian-owned company that developed a fiduciary process t

Industry committee  I can answer that. Janet Beauvais is the director general of the food directorate. She's responsible for the main regulatory asks that we've presented for Health Canada.