We've been monitoring this issue very closely. Another barrier that stood in our way was that we didn't even know how much we were trading to the United States. I had to go to our U.S. trade association to ask for the numbers that they had. When I got them, I realized that Canada is tracking only 20% of our exports of organic products. We were working blind, completely blind. We still are.
Yesterday I was at a meeting, and I spoke with Treasury Board. We really need to develop more HS codes for organic products so that we can monitor those trade impacts. Everybody always hears us talk about data. It has far-reaching effects if we are unable to benchmark. We can't prove things, and the research isn't there. We need Canadian studies.
Our sector has very much been impacted, and we've met multiple times with the U.S. about it. Now we have to get our members on board to try to do the claim back process. Many of them sucked it up and paid the tariffs on their own because they didn't want to lose their largest market. It impacted us hugely.
