jmayerl,

Not exactly. You said your syrup was better than Canadian syrup because of what's gone on in the Federation. Ontario and New Brunswick are each about equivalent to New York in total syrup produced per year but are not at all involved with the Quebec Federation so you can't lump us with Quebec. We go to great lengths to differentiate our locally produced syrup in Ontario as a large percentage of the syrup sold here comes from Quebec too - Ontario is a net importer of syrup as demand exceeds supply.

I don't agree that the Federation should allow contaminated syrup to enter the food chain - it should be dumped. I know Ontario forces some syrup to be dumped each year because of higher than permissible lead levels because our Ministry of Agriculture and Food is very pro-active at monitoring food safety. They would never allow it to be sold as sub-standard syrup so it can be diluted and re-processed.