Thank you very much, and thank you to all the witnesses for coming here this afternoon.
Like my colleague Terence, I also represent an urban riding but I grew up on a farm. I'm not familiar with much of the stuff you mentioned here; technology has changed over the years.
Mr. Loessin and Mr. Kurbis, you mentioned here and in news releases in the past that Canadian exporters navigate a difficult system, a Byzantine system, of regulations. You're moving your products to about 150 countries and you face these difficulties. On the practical side, I don't think this will ever disappear because there will be new products for farmers in Canada and in other countries. It will always be a two-way street. How would you suggest we find the best way to deal with it? Going back to your example of that shipment worth $40 million that was stopped. Probably someone knew before you sent that shipment that the person who was receiving it had a zero tolerance. Therefore, in that particular case, did someone just take a chance that it would pass?
If there's a new product here, some countries would not have standards. How do you deal with this? If you're sending products to 150 countries, and let's say some had higher standards than here, what would you do? Would you have a select number of farmers growing a crop that would go to those select countries and keeping their standards high? How do you deal with that? You mentioned custom unions. There's one in the European Union. Russia is trying to put together another one. It's not going very well. There may be others. Then you have big countries that have their own regulations. How do you propose to best deal with these situations so that you don't take the chance on one side, and so that whoever, whether farmers or the people who buy products from them, are not hit with a loss?