CP | November 12, 1999
MONTREAL - The federal Canadian opposition, the Bloc Quebecois, was cited as saying today that genetically altered foods should be labbelled as such and that a petition will fuel its campaign to pressure the government to amend the drug and food laws to include mandatory labelling of modified food.
The story says that on Nov. 4, the Bloc put forward a such a bill in the Commons.
Bloc Leader Gilles Duceppe was cited as saying Friday that once labelling is mandatory, companies that produce genetically altered foods will have to invest in research to prove their products aren't harmful to people or agriculture.
A debate over the safety of genetically altered foods is growing in Canada, since Europeans have started calling for controls over products.
Bloc MP Helene Alarie was quoted as saying, "the first right of the consumer is to know what is in their shopping basket. Consumers have been kept in the dark."
