Thank you, all, for coming to committee today.
I'm from northeastern B.C. We had a little community called McBride—we still have it—and there was an abattoir there. They had issues with inspection and trying to sell to Alberta. You would think it would go the other way around, but it's not always the case. They had markets on the other side but were hamstrung by this kind of regulatory problem that we have. We have two separate systems that pretty much do the same thing.
You're even saying the Canadian model is even stronger than the provincial model, and I appreciate that. We've heard different examples from other presenters that often the inspectors are doing almost the exact same thing. To us that's redundancy. We work really hard at getting rid of some of these redundancies and trade issues with other countries, and yet we still see these within our own country. That's why we're here doing this study.
Joe, I will come back to you, but James, you mentioned some examples of the impact of the inconsistent provincial regulations or inspections. How has that affected the industry in Canada? You've used a few little examples. Can you just give us a good example on that?