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Agriculture committee Sorry, I missed the first part of your question, sir.
May 8th, 2008Committee meeting
Blair Coomber
Agriculture committee The first point I would make is that when we're talking about the “Product of Canada” labelling and country of origin, it can get confusing. We're talking about two different things. In the “Product of Canada” labelling we're dealing with policy around the obligations or criteria
May 8th, 2008Committee meeting
Blair Coomber
Agriculture committee I think the difference between what we're doing and what the United States is doing with “country of origin” labelling is that ours is voluntary, whereas they're proposing mandatory “country of origin” labelling requirements. The position of Canada has been that this is unnecessa
May 8th, 2008Committee meeting
Blair Coomber
Agriculture committee Thank you. As Mr. Mayers said, largely the policy and the enforcement is with the Food Inspection Agency. But the department looks at “Product of Canada” from a number of perspectives. One certainly is trade considerations and fulfilling our trade obligations and ensuring we co
May 8th, 2008Committee meeting
Blair Coomber
Agriculture committee That's fine.
May 8th, 2008Committee meeting
Blair Coomber