Today, over one - third of the food we produce is lost or goes to waste — and while 800 million people go hungry every day,
the weight loss industry generates revenue of about $ 60 billion per year in the U.S. alone.
Applying the lower of these two
weighted - average calculations (24 percentage points) to Canada's existing automotive manufacturing footprint (and assuming that the dislocation for Canada's
industry is only proportional to the overall North American shrinkage, an assumption which is probably optimistic), allows us to
generate an estimate of the potential scale of economic
loss if the U.S. - Japan rules were implemented.