The way that mechanism functions is that they prioritize everything into four categories. The reality is that there are so many on the list and so few people that they really only work on priority one, if you're lucky. They take a long time to resolve these market access barriers, and they take a lot of technology and scientific support behind them. They're a long, slow process, and frankly, we're depending on other countries to come around to our view, at the end of it.
The resources are the biggest challenge that we find. I can give you an example. We used to have a CFIA that had a meat division, and the whole division would get involved in trying to negotiate these access barriers in foreign countries. They reorganized and made an import and export division. We had one person in that division for a couple of years who had the whole meat sector. It was one person. Now she has a bit of help, but there just aren't the resources there to do it.
If you can't export the product, you're certainly not growing your industry. You're basically conceding and forfeiting the jobs that go with it. That really is the key, and that is a government mandate that we can't do. It's only the government's mandate, and that's why we put so much priority on our presentation. Where we need the government to be involved is where its mandate is. It's a unique mandate, and it takes a lot of work and a lot of time.
The resources have gone down. The support to exports has gone down. At the same time, you're talking about increasing them.