Well, the minister has made it a top priority to establish trade agreements so you have the framework of science-based rules to allow trade. He's invested an enormous amount of time and departmental effort to ensure that once the doors are opened they remain open.
There's been a trend, which I'm sure you've seen, towards what we would call probably politically motivated sanitary/phytosanitary barriers to trade, which really have nothing to do with science and much more to do with domestic politics. So the minister has been extremely aggressive in trying to keep those doors open over the last few years.
The department has a series of trade commissioners who are agriculture-specific around key markets in the world and who work with companies all the time to try to keep that trade flowing. The minister has been putting more emphasis on bringing companies with him and engaging with industry when he's involved in such things as the market access issues with China last year with blackleg and canola oil. The canola industry and the Canola Council were right there with us as a partner so that they can follow up once the doors are open. Likewise with flax and the temporary agreement with the EU, we have the flax industry working with us. When we had problems with the Mexicans and meal, the same process happened. It's a trilateral engagement often with the province, the commodity group, and the federal government.
That idea of opening a market, but then making sure that people can capitalize on it, is a core function of our international trade branch.