Thank you, gentlemen, for being here.
I want to point out also that we've heard over and over how important the Japanese market is to the meat industry—the beef industry and the pork industry. I'm going to echo my colleague's words that, hopefully, our Conservative government won't be sleeping at the wheel, as they did with the Koreans when we were negotiating with them. We would encourage them to get on with it so our meat industry is not hurt by a free trade agreement.
Mr. Sutton, I want to go back to you. I listened and I've read a number of reports. Your response to the 2008 listeriosis crisis was very different from what we have seen in the XL Foods instance. We've heard many, many commentators say, especially after the XL E. coli crisis, that you guys handled the crisis very well. They're comparing both companies: the way Maple Leaf Foods handled it and the way XL Foods handled it. The Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food basically failed to take tainted beef off the shelves for two weeks after the U.S. had banned it, whereas your case was a little different.
Would you agree that having huge discrepancies in the way you handled the incident and how XL handled it, is damaging to the meat industry itself?