I know from working at my parent's packing house that we export a lot of our apples to Mexico, Taiwan, and even Dubai. All of these places have very specific restrictions if you want to sell products in their countries. I'm sure in Canada we have restrictions, but I'm not too familiar with them. It would really be nice if food coming into Canada met the same requirements as food grown in Canada. That's very important, and it could go a long way to helping us be more competitive and solving some of the longer-term issues in this industry.
On April 26th, 2010. See this statement in context.