International Trade committee  With your permission, I would like to speak to it. Rather than just workers, wherever they work from...I know it's a question of trade, but we should be looking at the product. What can Canada best produce that the world wants and is the best in the world? That is exactly where t

International Trade committee  We have to follow our own laws first. We have to follow our own law, which is the Food and Drugs Act. We are not following that law. That is a very important thing. It's why the Europeans won't buy our food; Japan is reluctant, and South Korea is reluctant. They don't want to buy

International Trade committee  I don't know if I fully heard the question. What did the Americans do?

International Trade committee  In Canada, rBST is simply not allowed to be used in Canadian cows. That's what happened in Canada.

International Trade committee  On the U.S. side, it was already approved back in 1993. We rejected it here in 1999, and the European Union rejected it right after.

International Trade committee  Those studies showed that it was toxic and it was potentially harmful to people, and certainly harmful to cows.

International Trade committee  That is wrong, sir. That's an incorrect statement. If the cow is sick, if the cow has poisoned the milk, if in the milk there's a secondary hormone that causes cancer, then that safety is not just for the cows. We're talking about human health. When I worked in the human safety

International Trade committee  —and when the Senate looked at it, they not only looked at the rBGH. There's an interim report you should look at from the Senate committee. It's the rBST investigation and the drug regulatory process at Health Canada that was compromised. That should be looked at.

International Trade committee  It's not a matter of just trade. This is a matter of safety, public safety.

International Trade committee  No, sir, that's not correct. I am saying that we have five materials in our food supply that have been approved contrary to the requirements of the Food and Drugs Act and regulation by the Minister of Health. That was recognized by the Senate agriculture committee while they were

International Trade committee  Health Canada should actually publish the MRLs.

International Trade committee  They don't publish in the Canada Gazette. They're breaking the law.

International Trade committee  Bovine growth hormone is just one of the hormones. Fortunately, it was not approved in Canada. We all know the history of what happened. A Senate committee prevented it, and I was the key witness there in how it was stopped in Canada. Even though it was not approved in Canada, i

International Trade committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and honourable committee members. I speak on behalf of the Canadian Council on Food Sovereignty and Health. This is a group that serves the Canadian public. Paramount in every trade agreement is the SPS clause, sanitary and phytosanitary standards, that