Very sad. Hopefully Canada's strength in other areas (the World Factbook lists lots of industrial stuff (motor vehicles and parts, industrial machinery, aircraft, telecommunications equipment; chemicals, plastics, wood pulp, timber, crude petroleum, natural gas, electricity, aluminum) that has nothing to do with the cattle industry) will help make up for the resulting loss of revenue from both SARS and Mad Cow disease.

Hopefully it will be contained to the one case, and all the other cattle in all of North America will be safe.