To be frank with you, I'm interested in making the lives of Canadian beef producers better. I think this agreement and other trade agreements do that. It may be 1% or it may be half a percent. What access to international markets does for beef producers is it makes their animals more profitable overall. We've certainly seen this as a result of BSE and having our markets closed, where overnight we went from exporting 60% of our production to exporting nothing. And it's been six and a half years. It's been a long haul. We're still on that road. So this may be getting half a percent or getting 1% back. But we need to add up all those half percentages and get there. That's our concern in making it better for beef producers in Canada.
On November 3rd, 2009. See this statement in context.