Agriculture committee  I'd like to say that I was there too, but I wasn't--at least not involved in this. First of all, I'd like to say the origins occurred when the issue before the Competition Bureau was not a labelling issue, but rather a misleading advertising issue. So it could have been in any m

Agriculture committee  There are some laws other than the Competition Act and the Consumer Packaging and Labelling Act that have an effect on how things are labelled. Country of origin issues under NAFTA are not our jurisdiction, and we don't really have the details about that. With respect to the Comp

Agriculture committee  It's just not an area that we deal with. The reasoning behind country of origin for NAFTA versus the Competition Act or the Consumer Packaging and Labelling Act is different.

Agriculture committee  I'm not saying they impact on the labelling. I'm saying there might be definitions under country of origin that have nothing to do with the labelling. The labelling is the jurisdiction.

Agriculture committee  I will speak just from the Competition Act in the non-food area. I would say that anybody who wants to put information like that on the label that is accurate would be completely in compliance with the Competition Act or with the Consumer Packaging and Labelling Act as regards

Agriculture committee  Right. Our legislation does not require anything on the label unless people wish to do so. Then they are perfectly within their rights to do so as long as the information on it is accurate and doesn't convey a misleading impression to the consumer.

Agriculture committee  Not necessarily. I must add that with regard to farm products, it's not up to us to issue an opinion, it would be up to the CFIA. So it would be best to put this question to Ms. Bryanton.

Agriculture committee  No, that's quite correct. One could use the terms “Product of Canada”. I've seen a lot of newspaper articles lately that talk about a will to add another term that means product of Canada. We agree that this could be done, there's nothing in the legislation that prevents us from

Agriculture committee  In our legislation, we don't oblige anyone to use either one of those two terms, but if they are using them, they have to be accurate. Now, of the two terms, “Made in Canada” and “Manufactured in Canada”, the latter is the more specific term. As long as the company that is makin

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Bonjour, tout le monde. The Competition Bureau is pleased to appear today to take part in the committee's deliberations on “Product of Canada” claims. My name is Andrea Rosen, and I am the acting deputy commissioner of competition for the fair business p