Thank you for your presentations. I also represent a rural riding with many farmers in it. I appreciate the work you do and the effort you put into being stewards of the land and ensuring not just that you're frugal but that you're leaving the land and the environment in good shape when you're done with it. I thank you for that.
I think this morning it's been touched on that trade deals have changed dramatically from where we were. The concerns in this deal aren't around the tariff reductions that would obviously benefit your sector, and we see that. We know the opportunity is there for the beef industry. That's been clearly highlighted to us on numerous occasions. We do recognize that for your particular group it would be a positive thing to sign the TPP. But of the 30 chapters in the TPP, six are really about trade in that traditional sense where we talk about removing those barriers and reducing tariffs.
I want to speak a little bit about the studies we have currently. We don't have a study from Global Affairs Canada. By their own admission, they don't have one available. When we're looking at economic impact studies on Canada, we have a few that we can reach to. One of them is from Tufts University, which shows 58,000 job losses.
I wonder if you could speak a little bit about how many people are employed in your sector and what opportunities you see for employment, with the understanding, of course, that spinoff jobs could be created from the work you produce.