Thank you very much.
I have a question for Ms. Vanstone.
In 1976, there were 400 slaughter facilities across Canada. In 2015, there were 30.
When you were talking about the exemption that is currently in place in the United States of 150 miles, you said that a lot of people take advantage of that. Most of the people I've talked to in the trucking industry who haul livestock go much, much farther than 150 miles.
Three of biggest facilities they go to would be Cargill in Guelph, JBS in Winnipeg and Harmony in Calgary.
To think that there would be a lot of people taking advantage of the 150 miles from departure to destination, with our current infrastructure in the livestock industry, would be a bit of an exaggeration.
Did Transport Canada take into consideration, when we looked at the guiding principles in subsection 76(1), that the facilities have gone from 400 down to 30?