Thank you very much, Chair. I'm glad to be here.
Thank you very much, Minister Carr and Minister Bibeau, for appearing today. I very much agree with you that this is a world-class product that we've made and we should be very proud of it. I very much agree with the Team Canada approach that you talked about in your opening statement.
I am a member of the Standing Committee on Agriculture. Last year we did a trip across Canada. We've heard grumbling from farmers about the CFIA's onerous standards, but at the same time they realize that those standards are what makes us rise above...and that when you see the maple leaf on agricultural products, you know they're backed by world-class standards. We've retested our products and we've never had phytosanitary concerns with canola, so we know those science-based claims do not hold much water.
Assuming that this problem is in fact a political problem and, just hypothetically speaking, is linked to Huawei and other problems we're having in our bilateral relationship, and looking at China's fairly spotty track record for respecting WTO rules, how do we ensure that if we resolve this particular crisis, Minister Carr, we'll have the tools in place going forward to ensure that it doesn't happen again? What will the Government of Canada come to the table with so that our agricultural producers in another year or two years or five years down the road are not going to be put in the exact same position? We know that our farmers are very concerned right now.