Really? Why did the Quebec government rule earlier rule it is not permissable for kosher foods to be sold in Quebec because the foods did not have French equivalent labels?
>>Really? Why did the Quebec government rule earlier rule it is not permissable for kosher foods to be sold in Quebec because the foods did not have French equivalent labels?
Leaving aside the ridiculousness of using a Provincial food labeling law to refute the Canadian government’s (federal) position on Israel on many different consequential issues, there is this:
French labels are not only required on ALL retail products, even internal documents - memo’s, etc., of anything but the smallest companies have to be in French in Quebec! These laws are enforced.
To the Quebecois, the food labeling issue is no different than say somebody marketing a product in the USA with nothing but Chinese on the labels.
BTW, I haven’t been there for a long time, but I cannot believe kosher products are not available in Quebec anymore. Imported products kosher or otherwise would have to be relabeled - possibly even repackaged, because Canada has different sized containers and serving sizes than the USA and that kind of thing is more strictly enforced there also.