Thanks, Madam Chair.
Tom, this is interesting. I'm having a bit of difficulty here. I think all of us probably agree it's a great idea. I don't think anyone is philosophically against that. As Bev said, we're talking about the substantive portion of the bill.
This is what I'm having a difficult time with. If it is such a good thing to do, why are we stopping at just the big guys with $10 million gross? Could we all just rationalize then and go to Bev's place and have hamburgers and fries there because they don't label them? I understand that the costs would be prohibitive, but if we're talking philosophically here, why are we saying we'll just hit the big guys because they can afford it, but we're just going to forget about the other guys? You could mull over that, I guess. I don't even know if I need an answer.
I'm thinking here again about the fats, and here on the White Spot menu.... You took probably the least of all evils, because White Spot was started in 1928 as a hamburger joint, and they have probably the best hamburgers, at least in western Canada, if not all. Did they label the grams of fat of the hamburgers on the menu? It is a hamburger joint. This classy stuff was just added in the last few years. People go to White Spot for hamburgers. It says 4.6 grams of fat. Now we've all learned there are saturated fats, transfats, unsaturated fats, partially hydrogenated fats--it makes me dizzy. I don't understand that part--how we can break all that stuff down. I don't know about that, as well as all these things.
We have to realize too that we have a huge number of illiterate people in our country who couldn't read this stuff if it were up on the board. How do we educate people on all those issues I just brought up? I don't know.