There has been a lot of debate going on in the last little bit about food labelling. The way I see it, if you'll pardon the language, it's ass backwards. Right now you look at a label that has the percentage of carbohydrates and fat and whatever the nutrient value or mineral value of it is. Why can't we do our labelling? Why does it have to say “Product of Canada?” Why can't it just say “98% Product of Canada”. That way the sugar in it that's imported, since we don't have a domestic sugar industry any more, is being labelled appropriately, so the person can choose whether they want to buy the 12% Canadian product or the 98% Canadian product on the store shelf? The food labelling thing is a pretty simple thing to resolve, and way too much industry and resources are being spent on that.
Part of it, too, as was alluded to earlier, is just getting back to the lack of education, because so many people are so far removed from agriculture.
I would like to see more local content in food, obviously, but I think the federal government has a role to play in promoting local production—Canadian production, too—through its own purchasing behaviour, and so on.