Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you to the witnesses.
I want to just go to Canada Pork International and Mr. Pomerleau for a minute. In your comments, you talked about—I appreciate the confidence that you've given to the Canadian negotiators. Quite honestly, that's something that we've been hearing. I think that Canada is recognized in terms of the development of free trade agreements, that we are fair, and that we deal with a win-win so that these agreements are seen as good for both countries.
I think you would agree it's important that we have that analogy as part of it. I'm wondering if you could help me just a little bit. In one part of your presentation, you talked about the Canada-EU Veterinary Equivalency Agreement, which is there for pork plants to become EU-approved. We now have three, and there are some sitting in the wings.
For us to market—and they have to be EU-approved—does this agreement also then reflect that their plants also have to meet conditions for imports of EU pork into Canada?
Could you comment on that, please? Often, we hear that they put the barriers up. Is this one of those non-tariff type barriers that are there?