The CFIA can impose fines of up to $15,000 per offence. No fines or other penalties were issued in the cases, including one that took four months to fully resolve.

The federal food regulator said it “took action” in each case and that, in all of them, the grocers fixed the problem.

  • ganryuu@lemmy.ca
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    4 days ago

    I don’t believe in the “whoops we made a mistake, we don’t know what the average Canadian actually wants”, their business is in knowing what we want and how to sell it to us. That checklist you made as an example? Wouldn’t let them control exactly what they want to sell.

    I know that when something can be attributed for both malice and incompetence we should most often choose the latter, but I believe it less and less when it comes to corporations (as opposed to fallible people). Also some products which have nothing at all to do with Canada have been labeled with that maple leaf. It’s not a question of “which part of this do they want to be Canadian again?” when nothing about the product is.

    In the end, choosing to not fine the corpos is simply a message telling them to continue with the misleading labels as it allows them to better control what they want to sell without any fear of repercussions.