Thanks very much, Chair.
Thank you, everyone, for being here. I met some of you before in my last pass through Kelowna, so it's very good to see you again.
I'll start with a few comments on supply management. I'm a big fan of supply management. There is lots of dairy farming and chicken farming in my riding, and certainly it offers a certain stability to those commodities.
But I do want to echo what Christine said in that it's not a panacea for all agricultural problems, and it really does come down to the commodity.
With milk, for instance, it's simply milk; but with apples, as you pointed out, there are many different types of apples, many different grades, etc.
As well, there is the whole quota system, the adjustment. There is a huge adjustment factor to go from the market system that exists now to buying quota, managing quota, and then of course you're into a very provincially regulated system.
So it's not a be-all and end-all, but it certainly has its advantages. I just wanted to highlight that.
Robert, you were talking a lot about standards, and I'd like to understand a little bit more in concrete terms what you mean by standards. I think of two different types of standards when you look at the final product. There is a food safety standard. If food is coming into the country, is it safe for consumption? I think we have processes in place, of course, to root out product that is not safe for the consumer, and that system is working.
Then is the quality side of standards, when they're not growing to the same standards.
Are you referring to a lower-quality product? Can you give me some concrete examples of what you're referring to when you're concerned about the standard of products coming into the country and how that matches up against Canadian produce?