I guess one of the great things of this job, Mr. Lauzon, is constantly being able to go out on the world stage and point to the success stories in Canadian agriculture. Of course, supply management is a glowing example of what works. I'm always amazed at how the opposition parties can play silly bugger at times with that analogy.
Jacques Laforge and I had the opportunity to fly out to a farm forum in New Brunswick about three weeks or a month ago. In the couple of hours of flying that it took, Jacques was telling me how he now says at public forums that it's a given that all four parties in the federal House support supply management. But he said, “I always make the point that it's the Conservative government that defends it.” There's a subtle difference there. He is quite vocal about that. I've really enjoyed the working relationship I've had with the industry. They're drawing their support from the marketplace. I look at that, and I know a lot of other industries look at that with some envy that they are able to do that. They have a top-quality product.
I guess it shows in that in the offshore missions that I've undertaken in the last six to seven months, everywhere we go there's a growing and increasing demand for our dairy genetics, for our poultry genetics, for those types of things. People around the world are saying, “You have an industry that has been sustainable to the point that they've been able to take that cash flow and build a better industry.” I guess if you look at the secondary industry that has developed around our supply managed system here, it speaks to the continuity and consistency of that quality supply.
So it's always an opportunity to go out there on the world stage, and domestically too. We forget to talk about our successes. We get mired down in the media headlines of what's not working and we forget to talk about what is. It's always a pleasure to reiterate our solid, unconditional support for supply management.