Certainly.
As a cattle producer and as somebody on whom the BSE crisis has had quite a heavy impact, and in consultation with some of my colleagues, I decided to come forward with a motion on the whole issue of TRQ.
As probably most of you realize, on Friday, the USDA put the rule in to the Office of Management and Budget in the United States. So the OMB is now looking at the rule and going through the process of bringing forward the opening of the border to cattle over 30 months of age.
The one concern I have, along with many people in the industry, is that traditionally we've always had a tariff rate quota with non-NAFTA countries. That has been followed very stringently since 2003, since the BSE crisis. What we're asking is that the TRQ be adhered to and that companies in Canada that make use of processing beef for their deli markets, or whatever, can access the majority of those products through the TRQs from offshore sources or from other NAFTA partners such as Mexico and the United States. So we're saying we respect that the TRQ remain the current practice in place, and we ask that if there is a need to increase it, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, who oversees the TRQs, essentially has to report back to the House with a reason why they need to have an increase in the TRQ.