Ladies and gentlemen, it's good to see you again today. Thank you for your presentations.
Discussions on tariffs aren't the only thing we want to tackle in a trade agreement. There are always hurdles that get thrown up behind the tariff walls, and we've seen a number of those, even from some of the countries in the TPP. Japan is great at popping in to look after their own industries every once in a while.
As much as we could possibly get done on MRLs and low-level presence—all of those little sticking points—has been done. However, there's always more to do. There's a real backlog at Codex on MRLs, for instance, and I think it's incumbent on us, as industry and as government, to tackle that list, because I don't think Codex is ever going to keep up let alone catch up. That limits our ability to draw generics into the mix, because they'll never get the MRLs done on those. As they become generics, they're focused on the new products. That's just an aside on a lot of what you were talking about.
Of course, agriculture is a major trading part of Canada. It's a valuable part—the third largest contributor to GDP—and it all relies on stability or predictability of market access. The trade corridors give you market indications on crop rotations, inputs, a lot of things that go into the science of running a farm.
Have you done any work on investment that could be drawn from these TPP countries now with access, when it comes to logistics and handling? We always have shortfalls there. Do you see the ability of, say, companies in Japan to come in and start to make investments in our cropping cycles here?