I'm John Steele. You just heard from my wife Eadie.
There's just one thing I'd like to say. I was fortunate enough to come to Canada 20 years ago now. I spent a time off the farm until I was able to generate sufficient income, so both Eadie and myself are both full-time on the farm, which is probably unusual in many cases.
One of the things that surprised me when I came here, and the more I look—I came to Canada, and it's a great country--is that the barriers to trade within our country seem more severe than some of the barriers of trade between countries. This has some significant issues, particularly in food processing and in access to our own domestic markets.
I will go back to the sheep industry, where I'm involved. Much of the lamb is killed in provincial plants, and it restricts access to the multiple chains to get our good Canadian lamb into the major grocery stores for our Canadian consumers to eat. That is another reason we're being serviced by offshore product. That's a terrible shame, because we have safe food in all our provinces, through our provincial regulations, and I understand there are export requirements controlled by CFIA, but it's a terrible shame that we can't move our own food that's safely produced across all our country.