Terroir of Innovation: the Development of Geographical Indications in Canada 鈥� the Case of Cider
Soyez des n么tres pour une conf茅rence d'une demie-journ茅e sur le terroir, et la protection des appellations d'origine et des indications g茅ographiques des produits agricoles et des denr茅es alimentaires, avec comme le cidre comme 茅tude de cas. Il y aura d'ailleurs une d茅gustation de cidres qu茅b茅cois durant la conf茅rence.
L'inscription est limit茅e 脿 100 personnes et donc obligatoire. Pour vous inscrire, 茅crire 脿 cipp1.law [at] mcgill.ca. Premiers arriv茅s, premiers servis.
La conf茅rence sera suivie d'un cocktail.
[En anglais seulement] Up until recently, Geographical Indications (GIs) were limited to wine and spirits. Now, they extend to a variety of agro-food products such as cider. This expansion, paired with the coming into force of the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (CETA) in September 2017, marks Canada鈥檚 new mission to increase the scope of protections for GIs.
Yet, surprisingly, GI protections under CETA only benefit European producers鈥攏o Canadian products were included in the list of protected products. Canada鈥檚 failure to put products forward for GI protection in CETA is symptomatic of its deficient agricultural policy and a hesitation to recognize terroir-related food innovations.
Notwithstanding federal shortcomings, other provinces have been quick to act. For example, Qu茅bec has designed original legislation to support and regulate the development of new local terroir products such as ice cider and ice wine.
Efforts such as Qu茅bec鈥檚 are particularly timely, as consumers are becoming increasingly sophisticated, crave more authentic products, and pay more attention to what they consume. Products must now speak to the socioeconomic context in which they were grown, marketed, and sold, and consumers demand better quality and hold producers and governments accountable to a greater extent than ever before.
Please join us for this half-day multidisciplinary conference, which examines issues and tensions regarding regulation, economics, and culture through the lenses of science, ethics, society, and law. Experts from a variety of disciplines will use cider as a case study, a bone of contention, or, in its French rendition, la pomme de discordre!
Une demande d'accr茅ditation pour 4 heures de formation continue obligatoire pour juristes a 茅t茅 d茅pos茅e aupr猫s d'un formateur reconnu.
