That's very true. While I like the idea of supply management, I don't believe I've ever been a proponent of moving the hog industry there. We do depend on world markets. To me, there's a difference between supply management and a support program that guarantees you're going to have a food supply within the country.
There's another point here that I wanted to bring....
When you look at any industry—I don't care what industry it is—if you want to be good in the export market, you have to be strong in your domestic market.
Right now, in the cattle industry and especially in the hog industry, our processors and further processors and our exporters seem to have forgotten that. They're so focused on export, export, export that they've let the Americans and the Europeans come in—some of the Danes to a certain degree, but mainly the Americans. They've kicked our butt to the tune of almost 250,000 metric tonnes a year.
That product is not to the same specifications as it is here in Canada. It's not identified the same way. We've heard at other agriculture committee meetings where our processing industry is not allowed to use products that were allowed to be imported. I don't know whether it's lax inspection or just that nobody knew about it.
It's a very complicated issue. At the end of the day, if we don't have a strong domestic industry able to feed our people, then we cannot compete in the export market.