I think that's a good point. One of the reasons why the government won't put COOL on--and I understand their argument--is because we've challenged COOL at the WTO. So we would shoot ourselves in the foot if we implemented a country of origin labelling system here. But I don't see why you couldn't put an interim labelling system on until such time as the WTO was over. Or maybe this is one area where we need to use bilingual labelling. If it's not labelled bilingually it doesn't come in. There are other things we should be doing.
I agree 100% with you that one of the problems Canadian farmers have is that imports don't have to meet the same standards we do.