[Technical Difficulty—Editor] trade internationally. I talked about the trade imperative. Certainly, from my perspective, with regard to trade liberalization and Canada's ability to access markets, we've seen this pro-trade agenda certainly yielding benefits, both on the various [Technical Difficulty—Editor] cooperation agreements and discussions that are happening between Agriculture Canada and [Technical Difficulty—Editor] leading to full-blown agreements. This has opened up the market access for our products.
When we look at the food sector, food is a basic building block of civil institutions and democratic development. I say [Technical Difficulty—Editor] openly that if young men are unemployed and hungry, they protest. Economic opportunity and access to food and nutrition are basic building blocks of economies, so I'm a believer that economic integration and trade are facilitators of both our economic agenda and our foreign policy agenda.