Through you, Mr. Chairman, I'll speak first on the market access issue.
Mr. Chairman, supply management does in fact allow imports into this country, well above many other nations and what their access levels are in many different commodities. I need only look at the poultry and the dairy industries. Dairy is around 5%, the turkey industry is around 5%, and the table egg industry is around 5% as well. The chicken sector is around 7.5% over domestic production, and our hatching egg producers allow 21% market access.
In fact, Mr. Chairman, supply management is not a closed shop. We allow more market access than many countries around the world. I need only look at the EU, which only allows 0.5% of poultry, or the U.S., which allows less than 2.5% of dairy products. So Canada's supply management system is not closed, and we do allow a significant amount of imports into this country.
To give you an idea of the magnitude, in the chicken industry we allow enough imports to match what Atlantic Canada and Saskatchewan produce on an annual basis.
That's the level of imports to our industry, so it is not a closed shop.