Note 1: Numbers may not add up to totals due to rounding.

Note 2: The analysis covered a 10-year time period (2019–2029).

Consultation

In March 2014, Beer Canada (a voluntary trade association of over 40 brewers who collectively account for 90% of the beer brewed in Canada) provided the CFIA with a draft modernized beer compositional standard, resulting from broad consultations with Beer Canada’s members.

From 2014 to 2017, the CFIA conducted consultations on proposed changes to the beer and ale, stout, porter and malt liquor compositional standards. These consultations took place as an online questionnaire and as a notice of intent in the Canada Gazette, Part I. The intent of the consultations was to obtain an understanding of stakeholders’ knowledge and views of the proposed changes, and to document the gaps, challenges and issues they identified.

A wide range of stakeholders commented during the consultations, including breweries of all sizes, national associations, provincial associations of microbreweries, provincial liquor boards, consumers, health professionals, the beverage industry and internatio