Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'll refrain from third party quotes and slanderous comments during my time for these questions.
The riding I represent is Huron—Bruce. It's home to some of the most productive cropland and livestock producers in Canada. I'll just do a brief preamble and then I'll get to my question.
The county I share with Mr. Miller is Bruce County, one of the largest producers of beef cattle in Canada. Huron is one of the largest pork-producing counties in Ontario and has tremendous IP soybeans and edible beans through the Hensall co-op--white beans, kidney beans, navy beans, you name it. It also is home to the Ontario Dairy Goat Co-operative. Large portions of these products are exported. In addition to that, we have a tremendously successful supply-managed sector as well. Huron—Bruce has a great number of dairy operations, as well as very large egg layer and broiler operations.
My question is, given the complexities in trade negotiations to promote our products that we export while protecting the vitally important supply-managed sector, could you tell this committee and Canadians listening at home how you work with international trade to protect the supply-managed industries while at the same time promoting trade and finding new markets for our products?