Thank you for appearing before committee today.
It's funny, because I was just talking to my colleague, Mr. Payne, about an issue. He has some members in Alberta who want to sell to Saskatchewan but have issues with the interprovincial thing, and I have the exact same issue. I have an abattoir in B.C., in McBride, that wants to sell beef to Alberta because they're so close to Jasper and that market. They're closer than the Albertans in some cases and have the same issues with this interprovincial barrier that shouldn't be there.
It's my understanding—you alluded to it, Ron, in your statement—that it is somewhat of a provincial issue because all federally inspected meat would be all right, but it's the provincial-federal issues that we still deal with. We have to deal with that. We're talking about it in terms of wine and spirits. We can do one thing at the federal level and the provinces just say that they're not quite with us on that and choose not to go that way. That's our challenge federally.
What would be some comments on this? We've already talked about solving the problem and we talked about silos and all that, but if you had your best wish, how would you fix this problem?