I like the word “farmer” rather than “producer”, but 12,000 farmers across Canada have some representation for an industry. You said yourself, Mr. Doyle, that not just our government but previous governments have signed a number of free trade agreements, and every one of them was a doom-and-gloom scenario: the dairy industry would never be supported; it would never survive; we were going to lose; This needed to be out in the open.
In every single one of the trade agreements that Canada has signed, the dairy industry and supply management sector have been protected. I think part of that is because of your own lobbying effort, but I think part is a representation from the dairy industry to work with government in a proactive way, quite frankly in defence of your own self-interest, which all of the proponents who are on these committees do.
Is that an exaggeration?