It's an issue that is paramount to me, Minister of Agriculture MacAulay, every minister of this government, and I would think every member of Parliament, for that matter. When 30% of your trade is pulses or canola, we have to make sure....
When I had the joint committee meeting with Minister Prabhu, the minister of trade for India, I made sure that this was front and centre. If my memory serves me well, we also had a representative of Pulse Canada. I wanted to give them access to the Indian minister to express that Canada wants to be part of India's food security. On our side, we need predictability and stability for our farmers.
We have been discussing long-term solutions, but rest assured that this is top of my mind and top of our agenda. Every time we have the opportunity to engage with civil society, business leaders, and with government leaders in India, we restate how interested we are in our bilateral relationship.
Obviously we need to address some of these irritants, because they are very meaningful to our farmers in Canada.