Health committee  Malt alcohol is produced from the fermentation of malt from grain, while ethyl alcohol is what we currently know as spirits. They are different types of alcohol that are subject to different types of excise tax.

Health committee  I think I would have to ask my colleague in the back from Spirits Canada to answer that more precisely. I'm not the chemist here.

Health committee  While the alcohol industry has been extremely creative in recent years, I also think the government and its public health and public safety officials have made it easy for them. The industry has been given much more space, places, times, and locations to offer and sell us all the

Health committee  At the CCSU, a working group that grew out of the National Alcohol Strategy produced a document that I could provide to you. The title of the document is “Social Reference Prices for Alcohol”. Based on various simulations, in 2009, the researchers found that $1.50 was an amoun

Health committee  Actually, our recommendation pertains to the sugar content and not the alcohol content. A beer or a strong beer, regardless of the alcohol content, never has more than roughly 4% sugar. Products such as FCKDUP, which Athéna Gervais had consumed, have 11% sugar. We recommend th

Health committee  Exactly.

Health committee  What worries me about a total ban is that the industry has always been made up of very clever people. I have colleagues at Health Canada who would say that, even if we ban sugar or caffeine, people in the industry would find other substances to mask the taste of alcohol. So we wo

Health committee  Would you like to say something, Mr. Sacy?

Health committee  I completely understand your concern. As someone who lives in Quebec, I can say I agree with my colleague Mr. Sacy. We are indeed disappointed that Quebec has not set a minimum price for these types of products. Our recommendation that the government subject these beverages to t

Health committee  The real focus has to be social media. First, the CRTC's code is inherently problematic because it's voluntary. It's a set of 17 rules that marketers are supposed to follow, but, as I, myself, observed during my research on bar advertising, the code is constantly being broken wi

Health committee  I live in Sherbrooke, Quebec. This past year, we did a study of cases of young people aged 12 to 24 who were hospitalized for alcohol-related emergencies. That means not only intoxication, but all medical emergencies related to alcohol consumption. It could be an altercation when

Health committee  Good afternoon. My name is Catherine Paradis, and I am a Senior Research and Policy Analyst at the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction, or CCSA for short. The CCSA was created by an act of Parliament to provide national leadership to address substance use in Canada.