Agriculture committee  There's a misunderstanding here. Something could have only 1% Canadian content and still be a product of Canada, as long as the cost of putting it to market exceeded 51%. That's why I think it's best to say that a certain percentage has to be Canadian content, and 80% or some oth

Agriculture committee  That is what the 51% is. It's the cost of production.

Agriculture committee  That's why you want to make it higher. You achieve the objective by making it that much higher.

Agriculture committee  Any product, entirely Canadian, the ingredients of which are 80% Canadian origin, and for which all processing, manufacturing, and additions were done in Canada should be “Product of Canada”. That is the standard this really good Canadian juice company uses. It seems to me that y

Agriculture committee  If I were you I'd put it to 80%. That way at least 80% of what's inside would be Canadian, but it would allow for the flexibility necessary to be able to have Canadian companies source from other places and still have it be a product of Canada--not have to abandon it altogether.

Agriculture committee  Mr. Steckle, I said there was a two-step easy process. One, I would move the 51% higher to get rid of those egregious cases, like where people brought the famous jar of garlic. So if it had to be over 80%, it would probably be harder—that kind of business. The fish example was

Agriculture committee  I'll just say that I've done a varying cost of analysis of it for more than one client. The next “Food in Canada” article is on this point. All they've really done to section 5 is clean it up and add “and import”, so now it's going to be much harder to import food. There will b

Agriculture committee  You need no regulations.

Agriculture committee  Yes.

Agriculture committee  This juice company I'm talking about is a good Canadian company, a longstanding Canadian company, with headquarters in Quebec. A product of Canada is any product that is entirely Canadian or whose main ingredients, 80%, are of Canadian origin and for which all process or manufact

Agriculture committee  The big business/little business thing is really complicated. You'd have to take another whole session on that. Let me say, though, don't hold your breath for harmonization. It's not going to happen anytime soon. I can tell you, from the five years I was president of the food ins

Agriculture committee  That's because in the U.S. they don't have pre-market approval for these things. The solution is easy; the analysis is complicated.

Agriculture committee  I do not at all. In fact, I read what the Federation of Agriculture said. They seemed to be saying we should leave “Product of Canada” alone, but we should have “Grown in Canada”, and they're seeking funding from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. That's what I saw. I don't want t

Agriculture committee  If the rule was that it had to be 100% Canadian product—

Agriculture committee  Yes.