Finance committee  The one comment I would make on that is that this bill does not affect and will not affect the situation at the international border. Any imported wine will still come in exactly the way it does today. The only difference would be that there would be some ability for consumers to

Finance committee  I think we've waited 80 years for the provinces to agree on reasonable limits and there's been no progress at all. I don't put much faith in the provinces coming to any agreement within any kind of reasonable time on that issue.

Finance committee  On the minimum reasonable amount, you can look to the United States. That's open to debate obviously. My personal definition would be one or two cases per month per person. That would be my personal definition. That's probably a legal issue you need to discuss in greater detail.

Finance committee  That's exclusively in the area of federal jurisdiction. The matter of interprovincial trade is exclusively an area of federal jurisdiction, so I don't see any interference with the provinces' jurisdiction on that issue. The federal government is free to legislate as it wants on t

Finance committee  I'm sorry.

Finance committee  Thank you for the invitation to speak on this important issue. I would like to briefly review four issues that are also covered in the brief I submitted. The first is the legal effect of the current law. Contrary to what you may have heard, the current law entirely stops the di

Finance committee  Sorry. The second issue that I'd like to deal with flows from the previous one. I'd like to illustrate why we need reform at the federal level by using examples of what the provincial liquor boards have done recently. Following a lot of media attention on this issue—mostly gener