Agriculture committee  I have a quick comment. I was walking around last night, and I was at the Irish store. They have Irish food there, and they're not compliant. So I'm wondering how this law would affect a store like that and small businesses like mine that import ketchup made in Canada but label

Agriculture committee  The more we can wrap the flag around our products, the better. If the processors process it but can only get 60%, they should still be able to put “Product of Canada” on it. That's wrapping the flag around it. Even 51%...leave it as it is now. But at the same time, put “Grown in

Agriculture committee  To me, a simple solution regarding labelling would be to let the Canadian government make this NFT up. I think the United States is moving towards it, and I think Mexico already has it. It could be done. You could just copy and paste off.... I know when I do the lab analysis tha

Agriculture committee  How come they let me put all this French on here, then, and the metric volume? The only thing the CFIA is upset about, basically, is the 20 grams.

Agriculture committee  But the FDA samples this product. They've sampled it twice and they've said 100%. It's FDA approved, right? I think someone should be talking to them. It was a lady in Minneapolis at FDA who said, “You can put all the French on it you want.”

Agriculture committee  It might. It would never affect saskatoons, because the only place that saskatoons come from, I believe, is Canada. In other issues, say with raspberries and strawberries, the factory I buy from buys all they can from Canada, but sometimes they can't always get the berries from C

Agriculture committee  Those are the blueberries.

Agriculture committee  Yes. But I don't do the processing.

Agriculture committee  Yes. From what I understand, when you go not much further than, say, Minnesota south, they don't actually know what a saskatoon is. So it's basically a Canadian product; it has to be.

Agriculture committee  Yes. My idea--maybe it's the same idea you have--is that you don't need to make all the labels harmonized all at once. I think one label would be enough and maybe people would start thinking about it. You probably know this more than I do, but for vitamin C, the daily recommend

Agriculture committee  I agree 100%. We in Canada are not the only ones who have problems. I have a jar of orange marmalade and it has “Product of the U.K.” on it, which is interesting. They have the same rules we do, I guess. Voluntary is much easier than mandatory, and I think it could be covered.

Agriculture committee  Yes, it would save me a lot of money. I think it would save the consumers a lot of money. Like I said, I also import. I sell jam in the United States and I bring things like ketchup back. I can buy this in the United States at close to half the price I can in Canada. Where do you

Agriculture committee  I want to say that the 51% is maybe an easy thing to do, but the factory I deal with doesn't always get its strawberries from Canada. We try as much as we can, but sometimes the supply of strawberries in Canada is all taken up. In an overall sense, we probably are a Canadian prod

Agriculture committee  I'm a grocer, and this is a sideline business.

Agriculture committee  Most of my sales are in exporting jam into the U.S. I'm an exporter.