Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I'll just refer to the written submission. They're great to see. I certainly am pleased to see all the detail that is them, and it's something that we'll be looking at. I'm interested in some statements on the carbon leakage, and so on, as we're looking at steel coming in from other parts of the world, but I'll perhaps leave that to some of my colleagues.
I wanted to speak to Troy about the Canadian Meat Council and some of the issues that are involved there. The use of our animal-based natural resources is critical. That's extremely important.
You mentioned—and I think this had to do with the hog industry—that there are 83 drugs used in Europe that are not allowed in Canada. Yet we hear from various food suppliers about terrible things, such as hormone-free and no antibiotics.
When you take a look at 75 grams of beef and realize the difference between the amount of estrogen in the treated one versus the untreated one is two...yet in the bun there are about 30,000 nanograms there, it's the kind of thing we get caught up with, and, of course, the meat industry is going to take the brunt of that, and has been taking the brunt of that. So trying to get some real information out, I think, is critical.
I guess some of the other issues that we see, as you have alluded to, have to do with crossing the border from the U.S. into Canada, and then from Canada into the U.S., and the differences that exist there.
I wonder if perhaps you could comment somewhat on the safety side of it, how perhaps sometimes people get going in the wrong direction, and whether you could also look at some of the trade issues that exist.