Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to all of you for being here today.
My riding is in central Ontario, and like Mr. Thibault, I have a really mixed bag of farm producers in my riding, from fur to beef to organic dairy to mainstream dairy to corn producers. I have a non-partisan farm council I meet with regularly, and we talk about this. I'm usually asking questions, and sometimes the folks at the table agree and sometimes they disagree with each other.
But I had a specific question, mostly for the Canadian Cattlemen's Association. You mentioned bilateral trade agreements, and I know Canada is at the table at the WTO and we are continuing to pursue an agenda with multilateral trade deals. Recently I was in Taiwan as part of a parliamentary group, and it was clear they are aggressively pursuing bilateral deals. I think Korea is doing the same thing. I don't think Canada is the only country Korea is in negotiation with. It seems the United States is doing it.
I don't know whether it's two schools of thought, the multilateral school of thought versus the many bilateral deals school of thought, but where are you on that? I think you mentioned Korea and Japan, and I'm just wondering if you think that's an area the government needs to focus on more.