The issues with our industry are not related to cheap imports. It is not a question of the industry withering as a result of foods being imported from other countries, that have been produced with cheaper commodities. In fact, in Canada, we have a fairly competitive regime for producing food in the traditional way. So we're really talking here about the next generation of food, enhanced foods, fortified foods, novel foods. These are the things that are going to change the food supply to deal with some of the problems that Mr. Crête was talking about. I'm fairly confident that we have a fairly competitive environment in Canada for producing traditional food. That's not where our problem is.
On October 17th, 2006. See this statement in context.