Thanks for that.
It would take quite awhile to outline exactly the great work that our Market Access Secretariat is doing.
I'm pleased to sit with these folks at this table, and the folks who aren't represented here today too, who have just done a tremendous job for Canadian agriculture and Canadian processors out there on the world stage.
We are a trading nation. When it comes to canola, we export 85% to 90% of what we produce. In the pork sector it's some 50% and livestock is very similar. It's just amazing what we produce consistently and with the high quality that is in demand around the world.
But we do face numerous challenges that are vexatious. There's the country-of-origin labelling situation in the U.S., or WTO challenges we've had to level against Korea, and different situations we face with canola in China. We developed and came up with this idea a year ago of the Market Access Secretariat, or, in layman's terms, a SWAT team, to basically go in there and coordinate everybody into one movement ahead.
We've always had a very active and a very good trade directorate under Agriculture Canada, supported very ably by veterinarians from CFIA and so on. We now have dedicated veterinarians under the Market Access Secretariat.
We have Dr. Robert Morrison from Prince Edward Island, who is our chief technical negotiator. We've never had one before. Dr. Bob, as we like to call him, has been on a number of those missions with me. He does a fantastic job of working through the new certificates that are constantly required by Russia, and every time we turn around, there's something new China is asking for. But they're starting to recognize the fact that we're not going away.
I'm not sure how many trips Fred Gorrell has made to China in the last little while on the canola issue or the pork issue, but I know his frequent flyer miles are chalking up. The results are there, and the kudos that we're getting from the farm sector, from the livestock producers, the canola growers, and so on, are just unbelievably good for the tremendous work that Fred and his team have been doing.