Mr. Speaker, in the previous budget, the government made changes to the seed potato tuber quality management program administered by the CFIA.
These changes will impact the ability of Canadian seed potato growers to export to the United States. There are some 17 state seed certification agencies that are resisting these changes and maintain that without CFIA shipping point inspections on all seed exports, they will not recognize our product as seed potatoes.
What assurance can the minister give us that our seed potato market will not be jeopardized?