Excuse me. I am just thinking to myself imagining the thousands of cars and Corporate trucks crossing along the thousands of kilometers long border between US and Canada with all the mud and other stuff on the tires and under the bodies. How many cars are washed for sanitation at the border?
How many plants are picked up from the nurseries grounds in US to fill up the trucks, specially when it warms up in the spring, to be shipped to Canada for the Corporate garden centres of Home Depot, Lowes, WallMarts and other hundreds of local garden centres in Canada with a piece of phyto paper which cannot guarantee every plant picked up from the nursery grounds assuring safe conduct for the thousand plants picked up in those loads.
Similarly the thousand of fruit crates (sometimes with snacks or other live /dead small bugs) shipped across borders.
Then there is the case of non-plant items picked up from storage yards, open grounds or shades, and loaded onto trucks for shipping across the border in multi-wheels trucks by the Corporate businesses.
The thousands of wild animals that cross the borders un-controlled are not sanitized and so is the debris picked up by the wind stormed across the borders or the rivers flowing across with everything in it.
However, there is no reprieve for the hobbyist's well washed and sanitized few cuttings in enclosed envelopes to send in mutual exchange across the border because 'it is written law'. It will stay like this until they have a lobbying force strong enough to make a difference where it counts.
I know there are some very nice people trying to explain the goodness of the law because of its good intent. There are many good systems and processes which are in place just because of lack of alternatives; that includes even the 'Democracy' where the heads are counted but not weighed!