International Trade committee  No. Thank you very much. We appreciate everything that has been accomplished.

International Trade committee  I appreciate that. You say “cheating”, and I say “fraud”. Cheating is a nice way of saying fraud.

International Trade committee  Since all the farms are pretty much family owned, I don't believe there's a labour shortage in our industry. There are in other supply-managed ones, such as dairy. In the further processing industry, that's been a challenge for sure.

International Trade committee  That's right. To take it further, it's an issue even into the food service sector, the restaurants. That's a huge issue for them.

International Trade committee  That's one question I had, but I don't believe I received an answer, on our ability to export to the same level as we import. I don't know whether that exists under the TPP or not, so I won't comment on it. What I will say is that in Canada, we are a high-cost producer. We have to heat our barns.

International Trade committee  No.

International Trade committee  It would be detrimental. It's going to allow over two per cent access to chicken, unless the government takes action to enforce some of the rules on previous agreements that it says it will. Then that would mitigate that.

International Trade committee  That's correct.

International Trade committee  I don't know, and maybe I'm off base, but it's my understanding that because we're still supply managed, we don't have access the way other countries do. We'd still be growing to our own requirements in the country.

International Trade committee  As I said in my presentation, the chicken imports quite substantial. It's not a closed market. We're the 17th largest importer in the world and we take more than our fair share of imports compared to countries that purport to be large free traders but are not. They don't take any chicken into their own countries.

International Trade committee  If those three were settled, we would be very happy with that.

International Trade committee  Because of the trade agreements we have—we have supply management—we're limited as to how much we can export, so we do not pursue that.

International Trade committee  I think it was something that was agreed to based on the fact that didn't want to hold up any negotiations for any trade agreement. We've always stated that vocally. I want to be clear that even though that is a compensation package, it's apparently going to be paid out over a 10-year period.

International Trade committee  Fifteen years. That's it. We lose that production forever, and we also know there are loopholes. There have been loopholes that haven't been addressed by the government, and we need those fixed. If they fix those loopholes, that will benefit us as Canadian farmers. We get to grow that chicken in Canada and promote...have more jobs and industry, and further processing.

International Trade committee  There are none that I can think of off the top of my head.