Thank you, Chair.
First of all, on the travel dates, we'll have to decide upon that as a committee. I just threw that out there; obviously there's more discussion required.
To answer Mr. Easter's comment about his motion, we voted on it; it stands, absolutely. We should have the U.S. embassy officials in front of the committee. I think that's advantageous to us as a committee. In fact, before we go down to the United States, I would say that would be advantageous.
To Monsieur Bellavance's comments, Chair, COOL is a driving issue right now in the red meat sector. One of the concerns I have is that if we broaden the meetings, we in fact lessen our focus. I think we should be focused on COOL and the impact on our red meat sector. If we're going to go down and talk about a whole range of subjects, then COOL becomes one of many subjects we are there to discuss.
We've had the red meat sector in front of us. I've been out doing round tables, as I mentioned, as has the minister. We're receiving very clear signals that the red meat sector is being definitely impacted. I think we should focus our efforts. We're there to talk business. We're there to talk about COOL. Other subjects? We can discuss that later if you want to tackle it later, but I just don't want to dilute the intensity and the importance of COOL when we're down there.
Thank you.