In terms of the standards that may be required by trading partners, if in fact all those requirements are driven by our trading partners, the next question is this: what does food safety really require? I'd go back to the question asked by the former Prime Minister--namely, why is something that's safe in Alberta not safe for somebody in Ontario? If we're looking strictly at food safety issues and not at other political issues or other kinds of objectives, then it seems to me there is only one standard: is the food safe or is it not safe?
To the extent that there are small plants that are unable to meet food safety standards, it seems to me there is a bigger question of why we're allowing that food into our system. But to the extent that we have rules that are not practical.... For example, I was told--I could be wrong on this—that there is a requirement for there to be both male and female restrooms. At a small plant, one restroom might be adequate for the two people who work there.
If we can get back to practical rules, then food safety is not compromised, and smaller plants that have safe food don't have to meet requirements that really don't deal with food safety, or at least with food safety on that scale.