I've actually been observing a unique reality for several years. If we want to convince the international market to buy seal products, we need to use them ourselves. So we need quality products here at home, be it meat, blubber, pelts or the rest of the seal, which we can even use for bait.
I went to China in the nineties. They asked us what we were doing with seal. We said that we ate some from time to time. They offered us 25 cents a pound. Today, we're returning to China and offering them seal from a local butcher, and the packaging says it costs $80 a kilo. We're having a completely different conversation.
So I feel we must use the product to its fullest in Canada before we offer it abroad.
Thank you.