Absolutely.
We've had 10 years of reciprocal aggregate compliance between the United States EPA and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada that recognizes both of our markets' production practices as sustainable. Unfettered access across the 49th parallel is critical for canola—Canada controls 60% of the world's canola—to be able to move unfettered into the United States.
Ninety per cent of canola grown in Canada is exported; that was $11.9 billion in 2020. The big concern, Mr. Chair, around buy America is that we rely on the United States as a global partner to promote rules-based trade. We rely on it to promote the World Trade Organization. We rely on it to promote that, post-COVID, we cannot have the rise of protectionism. Buy America is concerning for canola as an export-oriented crop and concerning for Canada as a middle power. If our biggest trading nation no longer respects rules-based trade, that's a really strong signal as we're trying to reform the appellate body of the World Trade Organization, as we look at the Ottawa group.
We're here from an existential sort of perspective as, post-COVID-19, we've seen this rise in protectionism. We need to make sure that we get back to what makes Canada great, which is being an exporting nation, as fellow witnesses have said. We don't want to alienate the United States, but we also need to make sure that we take them to task. We can't hold China responsible for its trade issues if the United States isn't willing to step up. Those are, I guess, our critical concerns there.