Thank you for the question.
I've had the privilege to travel to Greenland. I don't know if members of the committee have been to Greenland, but in every community there's a country food market. It's not a sophisticated operation. It's hunters who come in from the sea, similar to what you see in some southern ports, and they sell their product fresh in local marketplaces.
In northern Canada it seems that we are much more constrained by Agriculture Canada and other regulatory requirements. There are approved processing plants in Cambridge Bay, Rankin Inlet, Pangnirtung, and Iqaluit, but we can't do it the way they do it in Greenland. We have been constrained from doing so.
I believe that the inspection by Agriculture Canada is important for products that go to offshore markets, or even markets in southern Canada, but I know that our MP and I both believe that for inter-settlement trade in the north, which is the traditional way it has been done for millennia, there should be reduced inspection requirements and barriers to traditional inter-settlement trade. That's the part which I think we should work with Agriculture Canada and other regulatory authorities to loosen up.