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Province should support canning industry
Wednesday July 23 2008 (This letter was originally sent to Wellington-Halton Hills MPP Ted Arnott. A copy was made available for publication).
Dear Mr. Arnott,
I’m writing to voice my disappointment in the Ontario government’s failure to support efforts to keep the canning industry viable in Ontario.
It seems ironic to me that the federal government has recently revised consumer labeling, now making it possible to distinguish which food products in the marketplace are truly Canadian, and at the same time provincially we are reducing the availability of those same products. I do not want canned peaches grown in China, even if they are less expensive.
 Furthermore, how does shipping food halfway around the world fit with reducing our impact on the environment? Now that we can be sure that “Product of Canada” means what it says, I would expect that more consumers will be checking for this on the label and yet sadly such product will become increasingly harder to find. Very strange.
Liz Thurston, Georgetown

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