Mr. Pellerin, just last week, we were in Washington. During all of our meetings, agriculture was a subject that was discussed at great length. We even had a meeting with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. You surely know that this department is quite different from Agriculture Canada and from MAPAQ.
As a farmer, I realized that the American elected officials, certain American intellectuals and representatives from the U.S. Department of Agriculture were not very familiar with us, did not really know much about farmers from Quebec and Canada. Nevertheless, to my great surprise, they displayed a great deal of open-mindedness and expressed a desire to get to know us better.
Mr. Julien spoke about traceability. In the United States, there's talk about mandatory country of origin labelling, referred to as the COOL. I must say that we did achieve some progress with respect to traceability. I could see that they were really paying attention to this issue.
You referred at great length to the United States, our big partner. You are the president. Does your organization have a strategy to go to the United States in order to meet with people, the elected officials, and talk to them about agriculture in Quebec and Canada? Do you have any strategy regarding this aspect?