Thanks Chuck. I know you also have the technical knowledge as a lawyer about researching these things and can appreciate the effort involved! If you want to review the legislation, just Google Canadian Legislation. The Canadian Department of Justice site comes up which is easy to use, you simply input the name of the consolidated statute, if looking for that, or regulation, if seeking that, in the box provided. If you insert the name of the various laws I mentioned (Food and Drug Regulation, Distillery Regulation, Excise Act) it all comes up real fast and then just go to Division 2 of the Food and Drug Regulation, I'd start there, look in particular at Section B.02.020. Note also that Canadian whisky must be, "mashed, distilled and aged in Canada", I should have mentioned that earlier. Also, a distillate can include a mixture of distillates: so provided they are all made from cereals and all made in Canada and aged 3 years, they can be combined without reference to the idea of "flavouring" (so this would cover say what 40 Creek does). The flavouring rules only apply when it is desired to add "wine", or a spirit that isn't cereals-derived (e.g. rum) or made in Canada (e.g. Bourbon) or is cereals-derived and made in Canada but is not aged as long as the whisky it is desired to add it to and still have the label state, say (in my earlier example) 6 years old. Gets a little complicated. Some interesting stuff there about bourbon, e.g., it can be diluted with water on entry to Canada to adjust the proof. The way these laws were written, these guys knew a lot of the stuff we do, e.g. about redistillation!
Gary