I think the difference between what we're doing and what the United States is doing with “country of origin” labelling is that ours is voluntary, whereas they're proposing mandatory “country of origin” labelling requirements. The position of Canada has been that this is unnecessary and that under international trade obligations it's more trade-restrictive than necessary. So generally speaking, when we have voluntary regimes, if they meet the objective, that's preferable from an international trade perspective because it is the least trade-restrictive measure possible. And of course that's a requirement under the WTO.
On May 8th, 2008. See this statement in context.