News Summary

• A lot of things Ottawa does that it claims help us actually hurt us.
• It needs to let us make more decisions on our own.
• A mandate coming into force next Jan. 1 for front-of-package nutrition symbols on foods Health Canada considers too high in saturated fat, sugars or sodium.
• The government estimated the present-value compliance and administration cost of the labelling requirements to be $894.93 million.
• If the benefits to consumers really did exceed the costs, it would be in the self-interest of grocery stores to require their suppliers to put such labels on their packages where applicable.