Nope, don't think there's any bashing here, just showing how different oil companies show different things. Aside from labeling, when it comes to data sheets, Imperial Oil and Petro-Canada, particularly the latter one, make it very easy to determine whether there is a formal approval or "just" meets/exceeds.
Of course, meeting and exceeding can get some people concerned or confused when it comes to ACEA specs, because the Petro-Canada HDEOs say meets or exceeds ACEA, rather than having a formal approval. You can't have ACEA formal approval, though, so you can never truthfully claim formal approval to something like, say, E7, E9.