As swine flu wanes, Canada lifts travel advisory for Mexico

"This is an industry that has sales of over $15 billion and employs 45,000 people (in Canada)," said Liberal agriculture critic Wayne Easter in the House of Commons, "so the impact could be huge."

International Trade Minister Stockwell Day called China's ban on Canadian pork "disappointing and unwarranted," while Liberal foreign affairs critic Bob Rae went further, calling it "illegal."
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Paul Hodgman, executive director of Alberta Pork, said there is much at stake for Canada's pork industry.

"It's actually bigger on the export front than the beef industry is, which comes to the surprise of a lot of people," Hodgman told CTV Newsnet from Edmonton. "We export about 60 per cent of what we produce -- we're in the top three exporting nations in the world, and we export to about 100 countries."
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Alberta's chief veterinarian, Dr. Gerald Hauer, says there are no indications that people can get sick with H1N1 from eating pork.

"Pork is known to be safe to eat," Hauer told CTV's Canada AM in a phone interview from Alberta on Monday morning.

"All the organizations agree that properly prepared and handled and cooked pork will not cause any problems with swine influenza."