Sure, I'd be happy to.
The trade commissioner service and our trade officers in our foreign embassies are really critical to our export capabilities. With canola I would say that's less so from a marketing point of view, although there is some market development work that they assist with, but from a market access point of view, their work is really important.
In some of our major markets, like China, for example, the trade officers there are keeping an eye on new regulations that are coming along from China, helping us with issues that come up where we have to reach into the ministry of agriculture or the regulator in China to have questions resolved and try to resolve issues that might come up that are disrupting trade.
There is an agreement where Agriculture Canada has agriculture officers as part of the trade commissioner service in some of our major markets, and they are very attuned to agricultural issues. In those markets they are extremely helpful to us, and they really understand Canadian agriculture and our needs in these foreign markets. But just the overall trade commissioners, too, in those markets where there isn't a specific Agriculture Canada person, when we need to deal with an issue that's come up in that market, they're the first whom we go to and they understand the market and the government, and they can provide advice and direction to us on how we deal with it.
With Agriculture Canada, with the new market access secretariat, that has been a real focus on maintaining market access and growing market access. We've made a lot of use of the market access secretariat at Agriculture Canada with issues like resolving our challenges with blackleg in China. That is such a huge market and that's such a big issue for us. They've been on the ground right from the very beginning, looking for solutions with us, combining diplomacy with negotiations to try to find, in science and research, some solutions on that. Together with CFIA they've been a strong partner in keeping that market open for us.