For the sake of other committee members, the challenge being outlined is that, at the federal level, there's a certain standard to becoming a certified federally regulated slaughterhouse for, generally, red meats. Very often, provincial standards will differ from the federal standards. You have to meet the federal standards in order to export, so that's the challenge.
That's a challenge that has been recognized. Under the previous framework, there was some work done with provinces to do pilots to determine what it would take to bring a provincially certified plant up to a federal standard, to enable two things, interprovincial export or interprovincial trade of those commodities, but also export trade.
There's not a structural problem there. There is the challenge that it's expensive to retool your plant to get up to a federal standard if you're not already there. For a smaller scale slaughter plant, that could be prohibitive, and in the Peace region or elsewhere in British Columbia, there may not be the volumes to sustain a plant with the certification. I'm not aware of what the supply and demand conditions are there, but generally, the plants that do reach that export potential certification are fairly substantial in size.