The economic impact of the numbers you're showing is rather staggering: 14,500 direct and indirect jobs, $119 million to federal tax revenues, and a $2.58 billion impact on the economy.
If we can find a way for non-producing provinces that don't actually make any wine.... I mean, Saskatchewan makes fruit wine. I've met the owners and they're doing a great job, but they don't make traditional wine. With the greatest of respect to my friends in Saskatchewan, they don't really grow grapes there. There might be some wild stuff that the birds eat, but they don't make wine.
They're not known for making wine in New Brunswick yet. They're making some wine there now, so there's finally a small industry there. But clearly there are some areas in this country where there is no wine industry.
From your perspective, because your group has been at this for a long time—this is not a new phenomenon—do you get a sense of what the reluctance is, in the sense of how we can do this?
As you pointed out in your earlier comments, we all supported Dan Albas' bill. We were very supportive of it; in fact, we all voted for it. We thought that was going to get us somewhere. It got us a little bit, but it didn't get us where we all thought it was going to go.
Do you have any sense of why the provinces sort of dig in their heels on this?