Yes, country-of-origin labelling is something our sector has been quite worried about. I again emphasize that we live and die by international trade. We originally saw, and I guess to some extent we still see, country-of-origin labelling as essentially a non-tariff trade barrier that will complicate it and make it more difficult for us to sell beef in the American marketplace.
It's kind of bizarre because the Americans have been very cranky for a long time about our bluetongue and anaplasmosis policies. We're working our way through that.
At the same time, if they implement country-of-origin labelling, it would restrict our ability to buy American feeders, bring them up here, feed them, and sell them back to the States either as live cattle or as beef. It's kind of a bizarre thing on their side of the border.
As it was originally worded or intended in the first rendition, they would have to segregate Canadian products from American products. It's where the catch is for us, because we're fearful that a lot of supermarkets would not want to have two different coolers, one for Canadian beef and one for American beef. It's where some of the grief can happen.
Of course, it doesn't apply to food service, at least in the original rendition. We would still be able to sell steaks or even hamburger to steakhouses or hamburger joints in the States without having these country-of-origin labelling issues.
We were really focusing on that when BSE hit. Our focus was then on BSE rather than country-of-origin labelling.
I mean, if it comes, it comes. It looks like it's going to come. The Democrats seem to be pushing it, and we're doing the best we can to be prepared for it.