Thank you.
Mr. Haney particularly, you've been very passionate about your advocacy. I can certainly appreciate that. We have been hearing a lot of evidence over the past couple of years at this committee about how minuscule Canada's product promotion budget is compared with that of other countries: the European Union, with $25 million in product promotion around the world for wine products from the European Union; Australia, with $0.5 billion. We have these huge amounts in product promotion, and yet you were speaking, Mr. Haney, to an amount of $7.7 million over three years, much of it essentially maintaining infrastructure.
I'd like to know how much there is available, both for the U.S. and around the world, for product promotion of Canada's beef exports and Canada's pork exports. That's my first question.
Second, are you aware what budgets our competitors have for similar exports? Other countries have supported their industries much more strongly than Canada.
My third question, because I only have seven minutes, is regarding domestic packing capacity. You've spoken about value chain development in trade in meat. Do we have the domestic packing industry capacity to achieve it? And what needs to happen to increase that capacity?
Finally, are American processors allies in this fight around COOL, and when we go down to Washington, should we be entering into contact with them in order to increase our leverage?