International Trade committee  The mechanism we put in through an emergency measure only addressed imports, so it wasn't the full regulation of products. There was a driving need to have supply come in. We wanted to make sure it was a safe supply, though, so we said that it had to be approved by a list of coun

International Trade committee  It's more of a regulatory rigour than a hurdle. We are required to make sure there is comity: Are their regulatory requirements and tests the same? We need to really make sure that we can trust that. It is a longer process. We get to know their scientific review teams. It's wor

International Trade committee  To our knowledge, there was no effect on the disinfectant and sanitizer side. We detected no change in the standard. They still had the same standards and performed the same science we would be relying on. It's worth saying that when COVID came along, we had to work very closely

International Trade committee  The use of the foreign decisions pathway is one pathway. Really, the whole regime is meant to be tailored to these products. For many years, they've been regulated as drugs, which was not suitable, so there are efficiencies—

International Trade committee  Thank you for the question, Madam Chair. On the pathway for use of foreign decisions, a couple of things are important to lay out. First of all, the companies in the United States would not be required to do any less science. They would still do the same testing. If you starte

International Trade committee  I'm actually not aware of that. I know that as regulators, we talk about the scientific standards—

International Trade committee  That question, again, goes to our analysis. Certainly this platforms the science so that we can organize the area and our supervision of it. However, assessing how much it will be like Europe is something that we will continue to do for those particular products.

International Trade committee  It is certainly a point we can raise, Madam Chair.

International Trade committee  We're in research and conversations even now.

International Trade committee  Madam Chair, the question is an important one about knowing that we have the right safety. Essentially, we analyzed that the United States does the same testing as we do here to show that it works and that it's safe. That's very exact. The laws are intended to be harmonized, so

Health committee  No, I just essentially want to acknowledge that the department does want to move ahead quickly, but because the prohibition, for example, says “prescribed foods”, we need to fill that in before it comes into force. If it came into force a year from now, and they weren't ready wit

Health committee  Within the Health Canada department, the food directorate has many experts who are working—experts in nutritional science—on composing regulations along with the Department of Justice, so there's a very expansive team of experts working on this very diligently. Then it would be m

Health committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Given that the prohibition now relies on regulations to be made to operate, defining which foods and some of the scope, we need regulations to be in place when it comes into force. Typically we would bring in an order in council to bring it all in at the sa

Health committee  Eighteen was originally stated in the first proposal, Bill S-228, and at that time, the frame, I think, was established really on who would be susceptible to advertising. When it was proposed to be brought down to 13, the monitoring became very important because we didn't want to

Health committee  To clarify, if it's helpful, the original proposal was “at 18” in the earlier round of discussions on Bill S-228. There was a motion to bring it down to 13, but in doing so, there was a discussion that the department really wanted to be careful to make sure that advertisers didn'