Dear Editor:
I am just and ordinary Canadian with simple opinions. Yet I couldn't help express the confusion I feel over this whole affair. I suspect many Canadians feel the same way. This just makes me wonder where will this all lead to in 10 years time.
Thank you for reading. Suzanne
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I don't know who is happiest - the cows or Canadians ranchers. We can see those smiles rights across the country. This comes after Washington declared their borders open to Canadian cattle after a long stretch of banned Canadian beef to the States. It could take as little as a week to get things moving, but this is better news than the never-ending scenario.
After a two-year wait due to the Mad Cow scare, Canadian ranchers finally can see light at the end of the tunnel. It took one case of Mad Cow in Canada to shut the borders in the first place. We were considered the bad ranchers with the bad cows. No one wanted infected beef.
It wasn't until the Americans themselves experienced Mad Cow within their own boundaries that some realized this just wasn't a Canadian problem. Infected beef doesn't recognize borders. Cows don't know the difference between Canadian and US cattle. There's no discrimination between cows. It's high time people started looking at things this way, too. Working together may be just the thing to stop Mad Cow from taking hold whatever side of the border.
In the meantime, it's all smiles for Canadian beef ranchers.
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