I've been seeing this quite a bit. And there's no excuse.
It takes nothing to have your stock person check the label of the food they are putting out, and making sure it matches with the label the store has for that food. If it's wrong, reprint the label!
They have all the time in the world to put maple leafs on everything, but can't bother to be accurate?
I saw one store with yellow Canadian flags on stuff. Looked like they were signalling foreign product but Non USA. Deceptive, but still helpful once you realize the difference between the red leaves and the yellow ones
Charge them with some form of fraud of even a light form of treason. Selling foriegn goods under the guise they are Canadian is unfair to true Canadian products and fucking disgusting from a national pride perspective.
People will eat it up unfortunately. I still see the Loblaws parking lot full of cars.
Sounds like criminal fraud to me.
Take away their license to operate in Canada. Seems seditious to me.
Next up: lobby group with ties to grocer oligopoly pushing to defund the cbc.
How about if the label is inaccurate they have to give you the product for free. Shit would get fixed overnight.
6 (1) It is prohibited for a person to manufacture, prepare, package, label, sell, import or advertise a food commodity in a manner that is false, misleading or deceptive or is likely to create an erroneous impression regarding its character, quality, value, quantity, composition, merit, safety or origin or the method of its manufacture or preparation.
Penalties outlined in the act:
39 (1) A person who contravenes a provision of this Act, other than sections 7 and 9, or a provision of the regulations — or fails to do anything the person was ordered to do by, or does anything the person was ordered not to do by, the Minister or an inspector under this Act other than subsection 32(1) — is guilty of an offence and is liable
(a) on conviction on indictment, to a fine of not more than $5,000,000 or to imprisonment for a term of not more than two years or to both; or
(b) on summary conviction, for a first offence, to a fine of not more than $250,000 or to imprisonment for a term of not more than six months or to both and, for a subsequent offence, to a fine of not more than $500,000 or to imprisonment for a term of not more than 18 months or to both.
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