Agriculture committee  When it comes to supply-managed goods, the imports to date have been pretty minimal. It does create additional opportunities and additional market access, which may be of some economic benefit to the country. Like I said, to date, the imports, at least of supply-managed goods, have been very small in volume.

Agriculture committee  We certainly have ongoing dialogue with the Department of Finance. I don't recall our providing advice on that matter, no.

Agriculture committee  Thank you for your question. I can't say why the United States decided as it did. As I said earlier, Canada is not the only country that has improved access to its markets for poultry and other goods in order to help Ukraine; the United Kingdom and the European Union have done the same thing.

Agriculture committee  Our analysis, to date, has been based on the assumption that this situation will last until June 7. Our work is proceeding on that basis.

Agriculture committee  With respect to animal health, I don't know whether my colleagues at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency can answer your question. I think they are in a better position than I am to answer you.

Agriculture committee  I only heard a portion of the earlier testimony from the Department of Finance, when they described the process that ultimately led to their minister making a recommendation. As I said, we certainly have ongoing dialogue with Finance on matters related to agriculture.

Agriculture committee  I can confirm that's correct. Yes.

Agriculture committee  Mr. Chair, I will turn to my colleague Marie-Noëlle to see if she can briefly elaborate on that. As I think it was described in earlier testimony, the agreement covers a large range of goods, but it does not provide market access for supply-managed goods. That's my understanding, but perhaps Marie-Noëlle can confirm it.

Agriculture committee  Mr. Chair, I'd say, as I described earlier, we haven't done a formal analysis of this, in part because it's very hard to estimate what the next few months will bring. That said, we have looked carefully at the volumes of production and the volumes of exports from Ukraine, and have considered what the scenarios are.

Agriculture committee  As my colleague Ms. Donohue said earlier, we are discussing the creation of a system with the Ukrainians that would let them know whether their exports to Canada are authorized and, if so, give them information about it. We have also discussed it with the industry. That would enable us to know what volume of imports to expect in fact.

Agriculture committee  The European markets would certainly be quite a bit closer and, one would think, quite a bit cheaper to access from Ukraine. I would only add, Mr. Chair, that my understanding is that the rule of thumb is that it takes about four to six weeks for a container to ship from Ukraine to arrive at a Canadian port.

Agriculture committee  I'm going to try to answer as briefly as possible. As I said earlier, there is a bit of uncertainty about the exact volume of goods that might enter Canada. Given the logistical difficulties attributable to distance and other factors, I am assuming that the volume of goods will not be very large as compared to the size of the market.

Agriculture committee  Mr. Chair, I would agree completely. To date, we've seen a couple thousand kilos of ice cream arrive, but no volumes that would be material to the size of any of the supply-managed markets.

Agriculture committee  We certainly have looked at this. I should preface my answer by saying the nature of the situation is such that it's really hard to put a precise estimate on what's going to happen. What I would say, though, is that we have looked at trends of imports from Ukraine into the European Union and other jurisdictions that have relaxed their input measures.

Agriculture committee  Until the aforementioned shipment of ice cream, we'd imported no dairy products in the past five years and to my knowledge have no history of importing poultry or egg products from Ukraine.