I have a comment on the amount of pigs coming into Canada. Between 60% and 70% of Canadian pork is being exported. Lately more and more pigs, not live pigs but meat, have been coming into the country. The biggest concern we have as hog producers is that those pigs are being raised in China, being raised in especially Brazil and Mexico. The meat comes over the border, and as long as it looks red, it's okay, so let it come in.
We know certain things, we hear certain things, and we read certain things about how those pigs are raised, what they get, what antibiotics, and all those things. It's much different from what we have. I think Canada should have a much stronger food inspection agency at the border. For instance, if you bring your meat in, show us where it comes from, what it had, and whether the same standards as ours were applied. I think that would be already a big step forward. Most of it's from Brazil and other places. You can't enter them; I think it's almost impossible for our country to enter them.
Those things should be really strongly looked at. For those people, a container going over the Atlantic Ocean is $3,000, and they can put 30 tonnes in there--more, if they want. What's that per kilogram or pound? Not much. So for those people, if they can sell it for a few cents less, at $3,000, it's still cheaper than buying it over here.
So I think the Canadian Food Inspection Agency should look at that more seriously.