Thank you very much for the question.
Using CETA as the example, we've been working very closely with our colleagues in Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Global Affairs Canada, and the meat industry to ensure that their needs are realized with respect to meaningful market access improvement as a result of CETA. They have identified for us what needs to be done to achieve effective market access. As a result, we have been pursuing this in regulator-to-regulator interaction with our colleagues in the European Commission and with the member states.
For example, in Canada an important food safety barrier employed in slaughter is the use of hot-water washes of carcasses to address the issue of microbial contamination. We worked very closely with the industry to ensure that a very effective dossier was available to the European Union so that they could review and approve the use of recycled hot water in slaughter production. That was the highest priority the industry identified to us. We pursued it and have been successful in gaining the approval in the European Union for the use of recycled hot water in slaughter processing.
The industry will continue to identify priorities, and we will continue to pursue them aggressively with our European colleagues in order to ensure that the industry has meaningful access, not simply paper access, to the European Union.