Based on the testimony heard last week, I would say that there was no communication with a majority of them. It would have been worthwhile for the key witnesses to be consulted.
That brings me to the question of supply management. You say you are protecting it. In your statement, you mentioned money that has been put on the table. However, I am having trouble reconciling your saying that you are protecting supply management and the fact that compensation is being given for the concessions granted to foreign products that will be competing with ours.
At the beginning of the summer of 2022, you said there would be no more such concessions. In the case of the Ukrainian chicken, I want to believe that this opening of our markets will last only one year, but we have to understand that its effects will be felt here for more than one year, two years even, given that we are talking about frozen products.
When you say you want to protect supply management, are those just empty words, Minister?