Industry committee  They do not in the conventional sense, which is probably what you're getting at. Given the nature of our industry, we tend to find that there are several places in the country where you will get a cluster of manufacturing, usually because personal care products are generally a re

Industry committee  No. Innovation takes place everywhere. In Canada we've had a lot of work done particularly around colours. You might wonder what innovation there could be in colours. When you're in the fashion and beauty industry, you are coming out with new colours seasonally on a regular basi

Industry committee  We'll get back with some information, but generally anything that encourages....

Industry committee  Absolutely.

Industry committee  It gets more complicated in the use of those rules, but at the end of the day, you're involving products that come from Europe and the United States being shipped into other parts of the world, and that is the only place where we have an outlier, so getting into a war with them i

Industry committee  That's a very good question. I think the problem is a systemic cultural one. Those departments in Canada—Environment Canada, Health Canada, and the consumers bureau—are regulatory departments. Their prime mandate is the protection of Canadians in their respective areas. What they

Industry committee  In Canada the Competition Bureau has, for the made-in-Canada designation, the last major or significant transformation and a 51% value. I think in agriculture, for “manufactured in Canada” or “made in Canada”, it's the last transformation. The reality for many manufacturers is t

Industry committee  Absolutely. The lifeblood of our industry, quite frankly, is innovative new products. Probably one of the world's best colour labs for colour cosmetics is located in Toronto, and it produces for a world marketplace. It's a little-known fact, but it's true. What we have found is

Industry committee  There's a provision in the TPP that calls for its participants to align their regulations to facilitate trade. For us that was just a huge plus. It's one of the first trade agreements in the world to include that provision. From our perspective, we welcome it. We see it as a grea

Industry committee  Yes.

Industry committee  We're involved with the Regulatory Cooperation Council between Canada and the U.S., which has been in place now for five or six years. It's very slow. I think if you look at the number of places we've had alignment, they're very few. We've been involved now—

Industry committee  You ask a broad question which I've thought about a lot, because we're very engaged in this issue. We really have to be smart diplomats, and we have to be using things like our trade agreements with Europe and the RCC process with the United States. The TPP, whether you're for or

Industry committee  Canada's been very good about it. I think we're a well-regulated industry. There are always little things that can get in the way of import—there are a couple of issues we're working on now—but generally speaking, we've done a pretty good job. There are a few issues around prod

Industry committee  Yes. There are a few issues, but generally we have a pretty good system.

Industry committee  Absolutely, and it's probably more in our interest—