Thank you very much, Chair.
I'd like to thank the witnesses for coming before the committee. Your input is greatly appreciated, and we take this subject very seriously because currently we're obviously, as you've mentioned, in the process of negotiating the free trade agreement with South Korea and the next round of negotiations is taking place in March. So what you say today in committee holds a great deal of weight in terms of timing with respect to the next round of negotiations.
All of you have consistently talked about the reduction of tariffs and how vital and critical that is for market access, and I think that's an area we are examining: genuinely looking at levelling the playing field and looking at market access. But you've all talked about and focused a lot on tariffs. I think the Canadian Cattlemen's Association did bring up an important issue, which is non-tariff barriers, and you illustrated that by mentioning the ban on beef since 2004, the beef prohibition as an example of a non-tariff barrier.
I want to ask the other members this. Have you encountered any problems outside of tariffs as a means to preventing your product from having proper access into the Korean market? So there are no other non-tariff barriers? None of those issues have ever come up?
The second question I had was in terms of the negotiation process. Have any of you been consulted by the government, or have you been asked for any input from your respective associations for the current round of negotiations? Have you been consulted for your input?