David Kattenburg: Canadian Law

david kattenburg: After David Kattenburg repeatedly complained about inacurate labels on two wines sold in Ontario, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency CFIA notified the Liquor Control Board of Ontario LCBO that it would not be acceptable and would be considered misleading to declare Israel as the country of origin for wines produced in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, according to Rabble. Quoting from official Canadian policy, CFIA noted that the government of Canada does not recognize Israel's sovereignty over the territories occupied in 1967. Surprisingly, there has been almost no reaction from the political parties, unions, and other organizations that warned these agreements would be used to undermine Canadian law, even though this is exactly what happened. On July 11 the LCBO sent out a letter to all sacramental wine vendors that stated CFIA's conclusion that products from two wineries contained grapes grown, fermented, processed, blended and finished in the West Bank occupied territory and should no longer be sold until accurately labelled. On July 14 the government announced that it was all a mistake made by a low level CFIA official and that the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement FTA governed the labelling of such wine, not CFIA rules. But, in response to pressure from the Israeli embassy, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs and B'nai Brith, CFIA quickly reversed its decision. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.