Finance committee  No. We're advocating for the de minimis to stay where it is.

Finance committee  Yes. We like that number.

Finance committee  It's a hard question to answer. The proposed changes, I'll be honest, are very unclear at this point. They're not giving us a lot of detail as to the specifics of how they're going to administer them, but, for example, a group of products will be shifted to require pharmaceutic

Finance committee  It took us a long time to get there. We have the best system in the world, quite frankly, and we believe in it.

Finance committee  Yes, that's a great question. Absolutely. Quite interestingly, I spoke earlier about the challenges with the recent Health Canada proposal for regulatory changes. We were in the process of developing an interim policy with the inspectorate at the regional operations branch to

Finance committee  Yes.

Finance committee  Yes. In terms of natural health products or the food labelling changes?

Finance committee  Currently, yes. That's related to the natural health product regulations. On the food side, there are two sets of labelling changes coming in. We're very supportive of both sets of changes. We'd just like to see some alignment in terms of the announcement of when the changes go

Finance committee  No. The proposal, I think, is to increase it to $200. It's currently $20, which is where we'd like to see it stay.

Finance committee  Certainly. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for the opportunity to be here. My name is Helen Long, and I am here in my capacity as the president of the Canadian Health Food Association. Our organization is the national voice of the natural health industry. We have over 1,

Health committee  The natural health product regulations, the good manufacturing practices requiring a site licence, do apply to facilities used for Canadians overseas, and are still subject to the same requirements.

Health committee  No, the same requirements as natural health products in Canada.

Health committee  Yes. Thank you. Mr. Morrison commented on the act and the risk with all medication. I'd like to go back to my first and my key point. In 1998 this Standing Committee on Health made 53 recommendations, number one of which was that NHPs are not drugs and they should not be treate

Health committee  And thank you. CHFA does support the bill as it is written. We support the exclusion of natural health products, and we do feel this addresses a number of areas that have been open since 1953. With a regulated system on natural health products, the benefits of which we enjoy in

Health committee  We have a membership of over 1,000 businesses across Canada, everything from the very small mom-and-pop independent health food store to one of the largest vitamin manufacturers in the country, and we reached out to all of those members, our stakeholders. We have worked and discu