It really doesn't help our industry, because the vast majority of food products are produced in Ontario and Quebec. Given the transportation costs to ship beet sugar to the east, in many cases it would not be financially viable for a food processor, for example, to bring beet sugar into Ontario or Quebec in order to label a product “Product of Canada”, whether it was a sweetened dairy product, a bread product, or something else. It's not really a financial incentive to beet sugar production in Canada.
On March 24th, 2009. See this statement in context.