We understand, with all due respect to all the parties, that this is an issue that all the parties support, that is, to defend supply management. It was in the Speech from the Throne.
However, we believe that in order to have an ambitious agreement under the CETA, and in particular in order for globally competitive western farm producers of beef and pork and other products to be able to get greater access to European markets, there are going to have to be some negotiations back and forth between the European Union and Canada with respect to these particular three sectors.
I'll just end on this. Our view is that the producers of these products can be globally competitive. They can export with the best of them. They make some of the best cheeses in the world, and they're great artisans. They should have the ability and capacity to trade, to have open markets and to trade on the quality of their product and their ability to export.
With respect to the CETA and future agreements, Mr. Chairman and committee members, our view is that they will come to your committee—like the Trans-Pacific Partnership and other agreements—and agricultural products and free trade on those products, especially in these three protected sectors, will come under even greater scrutiny. If we really want jobs and growth in the Canadian economy, we're going to have to discuss it.