Last week, U.S. President Donald Trump mused about blocking the opening of the Gordie Howe Bridge – built to ease the movement of products, including food, into our country. It highlighted an existential problem: Canada is dependent on the United States for access to nutritious foods, like fruits and vegetables.
Our research team has been tracking the global flows of fresh fruits and vegetables into Canada to assess our country’s food security, and we now have the numbers that should sound the alarm, and inspire the country to take action. The United States potentially controls as much as 82.9 per cent of all fruits and vegetables that enter into Canada. Not only do we import much of our fruits and vegetables from the U.S. – a whopping 98 per cent of our imported lettuce is grown there – but even produce from other countries largely travels here via American highways and shipping ports.
I don’t know why but I get a “The Choco ration has been increased from 25 to 20 grams” vibe from the authors.
