Laws about alcohol around the world

(a) shall be a product obtained by the mixing or distillation of alcohol from food sources with or over fruits, flowers, leaves or other botanical substances or their juices or with extracts derived by the infusion, percolation or maceration of those botanical substances; 

(b) shall have added, during the course of manufacture, a sweetening agent in an amount that is not less than 2.5 per cent of the finished product; 

(c) shall contain not less than 23 per cent absolute alcohol by volume; and 

(d) may contain

(i) natural and artificial flavouring preparations, and 

(ii) colour. 

SOR/93-145, s. 16.