Joe Peschisolido at the Agriculture and Agri-Food Committee

Mr. Chair, thank you.

I would like to thank the witnesses for joining us.

I would like to follow up a little on Mr. Anderson's questioning. Our agriculture minister has talked about Canada becoming a world superpower in food. Obviously we need to maintain the productions that we have with the U.S., particularly in hogs and cattle.

I'm from the Vancouver area, and a lot of focus now has been on Asia—China, Korea, Japan. You talked about 300 barriers to trade. Other than negotiating, is there anything from the framework agreement that we can take to facilitate our guys here, so that we can eliminate some of these barriers, or deal with them at least?