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.

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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 57 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I guess we are seeing what happens to the world at large when there are mostly no consequences for questionable actions. I'm still boycotting Loblaws though, as per Per.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 34 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Corporate dictatorships, masquerading as "democracy".

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 16 points 10 months ago

Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power. - Benito Mussolini

[–] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 47 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Why even bother having regulations with fines if you're not gonna use them????

[–] lautan@lemmy.ca 26 points 10 months ago

Thats for the little guys

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 16 points 10 months ago

Gives the guillotine industry a reason to exist.

[–] mereo@piefed.ca 37 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I don't get it. Without the fines, grocers will just continue to use misleading signage. And in this vague of boycotts, it's important to trust where the product is coming from. They need to be hit where it hurts (money).

[–] ClownStatue@piefed.social 8 points 10 months ago

But then line don’t go up and fail! Can’t fail!

[–] OminousOrange@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 months ago

Best to look at the actual product label. Even produce will usually have its origin on the sticker.

[–] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago

I'm sure they promised not to do it again.

[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 34 points 10 months ago

No of course not. We love corruption and soulless corporatism in Canada, just so long as it has a little maple leaf logo on it.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 16 points 10 months ago

Lack of consequences leads to fucks like Trump gaining power

[–] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 13 points 10 months ago

I'm sure this cowardice/apathy won't bite us in the ass, surely.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 13 points 10 months ago

🙄

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 13 points 10 months ago

The action taken? A stern finger waving or perhaps even a strongly worded letter. None of those words threatening legal consequences.

[–] bowreality@lemmy.ca 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not surprised at all. Telus, Bell and Rogers can also do whatever they want.

I will continue to read labels on products. No store signage, no app is to be trusted. Anything that doesn’t clearly state where it is made or comes from I won’t buy.

I’ll also ramp up my efforts to cut out retailers as much as possibly. Several companies ship (Simps, Attitude, Uncle Bob’s, etc). For produce and meats I buy from farm stands, farmers markets and farmers directly. Stuff is fresher and the farmer gets more money anyways. Like this weekend I only bought lemons and bananas in the supermarket, all the other veg and fruit came from farm stands. One farm stand is open from April to December so that’s covering quite a bit of the year. Our meat we buy almost exclusively from two ranches in the area. Only ham and salami from the store. I wish there was more dairy sold locally by farms I would buy that too.

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Dairy is over regulated thanks to the milk cartel in Canada.

Other countries in Europe get by just fine without selling ultrapasteurized and homogenized milk, and hard and over ripened cheese only. The industry could benefit from some balkanization here.

[–] bowreality@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

You are right. That bugs the hell out of me. Europe is so much cheaper and have better product/more variety. The prices are nuts. In the last few months it went up again several times.

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[–] ChuckTheMonkey@fedia.io 8 points 10 months ago

You are not wrong. But what is really annoying is the government is holding lawful citizen to a very high standard, where they would fine you at every chance they get. While being very lenient on big corporation.

I got a fine for accidentally overcontributing $600 to my TFSA account. While big corporation can keep getting away with this kind of shenanigans all the time.

[–] ganryuu@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months 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.