Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the presenters.
There is a common theme on the agricultural side that of course these trade deals are good, because they build our capacity to diversify our trade portfolio. Not everyone eats the same cuts. In Canada we tend to eat the top end of the beef. Then we look for markets for the rest of it, the offal and a lot of the secondary cuts and so on. I see this as very important in that diversity, and of course that builds capacity at home, with jobs and so on. I'm just doing a little bit of a synopsis there.
When it comes to the trades, Mr. Sandhu, I couldn't agree with you more. I was a building contractor to pay for my farming habit, and I hired a lot of tradespeople. We internalized our costs too. We weren't a union shop. We did work on union sites. We paid dobie dues and so on.
I'm curious as to how you internalize your costs any differently than I do when it comes to your workforce. When they're off the job and going back to school, they still cost me, the same as they do you, but now there are EI programs that take care of some of that. How is your internalization of those costs any different from mine?