All this proves Sandhusker is you trust the Canadian food system that didn't have a BSE case recalled from it. And by not taking the same aged cattle that puts into question whether you trust your food system that did have a BSE case recalled from it. And if you don't trust your system to process our cattle into safe beef then why should other countries trust it to process yours.

It is not the USDA that is threatening trade sanctions on  Japan Sandhusker it is the same Congress that voted to stop the Final Rule. Which I find really dumb as they voted to keep the borders of a minimal risk country closed but are threatening trade sanctions because Japan won't open their borders to a minimal risk country.

And about the quote why don't you go read the briefing yourself  it is on R-CALF USA web site and see what it says as you won't believe anything we post about R-CALF anyway. and as for it being choppy blame R-CALF lawyers I only quoted them. 

What leads me to believe that?

 According to the OIE you are the same as they said you could not consider  the Washington cow as an imported cases as she wasn't in isolation of the whole North American beef production system .  They recommended the same precautionary measures to you as they did to us, aggressive surveillance of the 4D cattle, stronger feed bans and SRM removal. to mention a few. They also recommended that all involved in the North American beef industry work TOGETHER to clean up the North American BSE problem. I also believe this because the Japanese and others have told both the US and Canada they see us as the same risk.