Canola is Canada’s largest grain export after wheat. Last year Canadian canola seed exports to China were worth about $2.7 billion. A rapeseed variant both developed in and named for Canada, canola is a hometown success story. When Trudeau mused about free trade with China, canola was front and centre. In 2016, China again complained about impurities in Canadian canola that might let blackleg spread to its fields.

Source: thestar March 28, 2019 19:35 UTC