Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to our guests for appearing today before committee.
We've heard some comments about COOL and some work that's been going on behind the scenes with our minister, and some of our members have gone down to the States, talking to state representatives about COOL and how bad it is for the entire North American economy.
I've spoken about this before. Suprisingly, in Kansas City this summer we got unanimous support for our resolution that COOL was not necessarily the right way to go. It was so successful it surprised even me. They're getting it now, and they're starting to see it from their own perspective, I guess. Some of us have been doing a lot of work to change their minds, and that credit is due.
André, you talked about the CETA being good in itself, but you also talked about the residual benefits, the benefit of having access to the CETA market, which is going to establish a business model that's beneficial to the entire world. A person who sets up shop in Canada would have access to all these markets around the world. You talked about meat processing, and the fact that having a market where the meat has European approval will be a benefit to us. Can you speak to that?