We've spent three years trying to achieve the goals you've just set out. We have very little pork or beef access into Europe. We have a lot of problems on our biotech products. Really, no matter how good CETA is, at the end of the day if it doesn't deal with those three issues, then from our standpoint it will be a failure. That's what we've been spending a lot of our time on over the last three years. But I remain optimistic. One of the reasons we have a good shot of getting market access for our agriculture products is that the deal is so broad. It goes beyond agriculture.
Quite frankly, if you were negotiating a deal while we were trying to get beef and pork access into Europe, because we were going to open up our dairy market, we would be on the losing end. There's no doubt about that. When you have a broad range of issues that you can negotiate, like government procurement, investments, or services, you give us and agriculture a fighting chance. That's really important to us.
Whether it will come to fruition in the context of the CETA, we'll find out in the next three months. So far the Europeans have been ambitious about this trade deal. So we remain hopeful. We have spent three years explaining to the Europeans that agriculture is key to this deal if they want to get it signed.
One of the best things for us about this deal is that the provinces are at the table. It would be hard for Alberta, Saskatchewan, or Manitoba to sign a deal that provided no beef or pork access and didn't deal with biotech issues. And the Europeans know this, because we've been telling them about it for three years.