First of all, I want to give the current government credit. Mr. Ritz has been going around the world helping to create these bilateral trade agreements. I try to be totally non-partisan, but that has helped a lot.
The other key thing that really helps us in getting access to new markets, and it's something I was hammering away at last night at the rural-urban night in Chatham, Ontario, is that we have a wonderful ethnic community in Canada. Most of the population growth is in the cities, and it's in ethnic communities—from China, Southeast Asia, the Middle East—that have smart engineers and smart food processors.
What we need to do in agriculture, in my opinion, is engage our ethnic Canadians—again, if we look around this table, we don't see a lot—and allow them to go back as ambassadors for Canada to get us access to those markets. If I went there to build that trust, it would take five, ten years. We send over our people who, like me, went to an agricultural college and grew up on a farm. We need to send new Canadians who worked in those food processing industries and who came to Canada. I was just with one yesterday. It took him 10 years to get here. He ran seven companies for a billion-dollar Middle East food company. He can get us access to that marketplace.
We need to celebrate our ethnic diversity and utilize those new Canadians. I think that's one of the key ways we can get access to new markets.