Refine by MP, party, committee, province, or result type.
International Trade committee When the definition was changed, it was based on legal precedents set over the years. The definition of “person” was actually taken from the Criminal Code. We've modified the definition of “person” through several pieces of legislation to refer to “person” as in the definition in
September 22nd, 2016Committee meeting
Jason Flint
International Trade committee The reference specifically in that section of the act was removed and just went with the more generic term of product safety information. We've always used “MSDS” as the term, but then when GHS, the globally harmonized system, was introduced, it became “safety data sheets”, and s
September 22nd, 2016Committee meeting
Jason Flint
International Trade committee For that particular provision of the TFA, the bill that we're looking at now only amends the Pest Control Products Act and the Food and Drugs Act with respect to the prohibitions that are currently in place. This is because we have a free market system that requires that the prod
September 22nd, 2016Committee meeting
Jason Flint
International Trade committee Sure. As I said, the last time the Pest Control Products Act was revised, in 2002, the definition of “label” was combined somewhat with packaging. Packaging was designed to include a label. In order to facilitate the regulation of packaging for goods in transit, we separated thos
September 22nd, 2016Committee meeting
Jason Flint
International Trade committee The definition of a label was proposed to be changed in this act, and it was designed to separate it from the packaging because we're now putting in provisions to deal with unregistered products that may be in transit. The idea was to harmonize label definitions, and we looked at
September 22nd, 2016Committee meeting
Jason Flint
International Trade committee Yes, all those things are there, but—
September 22nd, 2016Committee meeting
Jason Flint
International Trade committee Not in the development of this bill, no. After it was tabled, we did hear from them that they had expressed concern that perhaps it was expanding the scope of the label beyond what they were comfortable with, but we did discuss and explain to them where the origins were and what
September 22nd, 2016Committee meeting
Jason Flint
International Trade committee They still have their concerns, but we've expressed what we intend to do with the labelling.
September 22nd, 2016Committee meeting
Jason Flint
International Trade committee They can speak for themselves.
September 22nd, 2016Committee meeting
Jason Flint
International Trade committee During the development of the bill itself, there was not consultation in advance. It was all in reaction to implementation of the trade facilitation agreement. We had consultation once the bill was introduced into Parliament. There was a technical briefing to allow for industry t
September 22nd, 2016Committee meeting
Jason Flint