Figure 4. Canadian regional volumes of export in pork and live pigs in the year 2001 (26). Region is indicated on the x-axis. The black bar is pork export in million kg (right axis) hatched bar is live pigs exported in million animals (left axis). Québec (PQ) has a mature pork production chain with predominantly finished products only being exported, whereas Manitoba (MB) and Ontario (ON) are large exporters of pork products and live pigs. British Columbia (BC) and the Atlantic Region provinces (Atl) have relatively small export volumes. The financial impact of an export moratorium secondary to a foreign animal disease incursion in Canada or the USA would not be shared equally by all regions. Manitoba, for instance, is the major Canadian regional exporter of pigs and pork products and contains only 3.7% of the Canadian human population, while Ontario contains 38%, based on the 2001 Census.