Agriculture committee  No, I think you've covered it. There is no question that consumers will have more confidence in Canadian products when they do their shopping and that they may even think that imported products are of a lesser quality. You mentioned the number of product recalls. If we look at the number of recalls of imported products versus recalls of Canadian products, there may well be reasons why imported products are often involved.

Agriculture committee  I think so. If the product is not deemed acceptable in Canada, then we must have a level playing field. Consumers are not in a position to tell which products do or do not contain certain substances. Consumers have the right to be confident that a product meets our standards.

Agriculture committee  We should use all forms.

Agriculture committee  As far as the survey is concerned, I've been reading the notes from the committee, and I'm not sure whose survey we're using. I think we mentioned—Ms. Cruikshank mentioned earlier—that we need to know what Canadians' understanding of these claims is and whether a survey is needed before we move forward.

Agriculture committee  I agree with Mr. Doering that the changes they're proposing would strengthen the import part, but the regulation the way it's written would still apply to Canadian products and still allow us to look after the products that would be misleading.

Agriculture committee  When you mentioned “Product of Canada” or “Prepared in Canada”, when we spoke of a two-tier system earlier, we were talking about something that's 100% Canadian. I think we all agree that all the ingredients are from Canada. But when we're going to products that are 70%, 80%—whatever would be decided if we're going to change it—if we continue to use “Product of Canada” to describe these products, I think we're going to have to do a lot of consumer education.

Agriculture committee  There's still a lot of research to be done with other countries. Some countries have similar guidelines to ours. The U.S. has proposed new legislation for country of origin that doesn't go into the depth that we're discussing here today, so what they would develop still wouldn't be compatible with ours.