I would like to thank all of our witnesses for their presentations this morning. We find ourselves in a pleasant situation, because we are all heading in the same direction, which is not always true of committee work. We may differ on percentages, the terms in French and English, and other such technicalities. Clearly, we are going to have to reach an agreement on these, but there is no doubt that the will to do something exists. I may have been somewhat optimistic before, because I imagine that the processors will have a problem with this. They will maintain that their products are products of Canada and that with the 51% rule, they must be recognized as such. There may be some people who will be against what we are trying to do here, but we are definitely on the right track.
I also wanted to say that even though I do not have a scientific survey such as the one referred to by the CFA, regarding consumers' preference for Canadian products, I can nevertheless comment on this personally before I come to my questions. Last weekend in my riding, there was an event where people could taste local and regional products. In a municipality of 6,000 people, 500 attended this event. Even the beer and the spring water were from our region. The reason I mention it is just to say that we have some very attractive food products.