Exactly. We knew that those bans were coming into place. We tried a few defence ways to try to offset them, but it didn't work. It didn't materialize. It had too much of a foundation built at the time to stop it.
It was only a few years later, and we were into dealings and negotiations with the European Union with the CETA deal. Neither our provincial government nor our federal government had the foresight to use that opportunity to regain our market access for our legitimate, natural, renewable products. That's what they are. Nothing could be any greener to the economy or to the environment than our seal products, yet, for all that, they were discarded as if they didn't mean anything, because, generally speaking, they only pertained to a small population of Canadians. I guess that's why they stepped away from it, but it was not logical.