I usually refer to our refined sugar production as around 1.3 million tonnes. The world market is about 120 million tonnes, to put that in context.
Our industry is largely here to serve the Canadian market. Sugar is produced from raw cane at major ports and from sugar beets in southern Alberta, given its geographic position. We can't grow sugar cane in Canada, given our climate, so we're here to serve the domestic market.
We're different from a Brazil or an India or a Thailand, which are there to serve their own market and to export. Principally their exports would be raw sugar. We use that raw commodity to produce the product that Canadians consume. You can't consume raw sugar; it's not the raw sugar you find in a packet, which is really refined. It's a question of producing sugar of a quality that can be sold to canners, to bottlers, to dairy processors, to candy makers, and to bakers. In the absence of that nearby supply, which they need every day in their food processing plants, they have to look to less secure sources.