Thanks for coming today, everybody.
I will, first of all, start off with a comment to the Cattlemen's Association especially. We were recently in Taiwan on a parliamentary trip, and the biggest issue that we brought to the table was beef and Canadian beef. In my riding in northeastern B.C., we raise a lot of beef up there, so we think, contrary to Mr. Storseth, that B.C. beef is better.
Domestically, we've heard some issues with the CFIA and we've heard some fear-mongering, I guess I'd say, in the public sphere that says that the Cattlemen's Association or beef-producing industries would allow road kill to get onto Canadians' dinner tables and onto their plates. The problem I have with that is that I have a lot of cattle producers in my riding, and I know they're pretty good folks. They eat the product that they produce.
Can you, for the sake of the committee, explain the reality of the situation and just reassure Canadian consumers that this just is not the case?
The question is for John, please.