Personally as a poultry producer, I think that every country has its own protectionist way of protecting its borders. If it's not through tariffs, it could be through insisting that meat from a country be cooked to 500° before it comes in. That's an exaggeration, but I know there are things like that out there. They may have just closed the border for different reasons.
In Canada, when we produce for our country, we have a good supply management system. We don't do too much export other than for our market development programs. For a while there was basically no need for dark meat in Canada, so we created a market development program. You obviously can't grow a chicken with just white meat; you have to grow the whole chicken, so we were allowed to grow the whole chicken and export some of the dark meat through an export program.
Our costs of production in Canada compared to those in other countries are significantly higher. That's how it is in Canada. Most things in Canada are 20% higher than in other countries. Our imports are higher, and we have high standards of production through our on-farm food safety programs and our biosecurity programs. Our animal care programs are the highest in the world. For us producers, attaining those things costs money.
Being able to compete with other countries that don't have those programs does not benefit us as poultry producers, because it's hard for us to do it as cheaply as they can without those programs.
That being said, I'm not opposed to trade deals that can benefit other producers in our country, because we've made multiple trade deals in the past without sacrificing our supply-managed industries.