Thank you, Chair.
I want to thank the committee for entertaining this ag issue. It is a trade issue, so I appreciate your working with us to see this come here.
Jean-Marc and Viterra, I have a couple of questions for you guys. The urgency—I'm really trying to get that message across here in Ottawa that there's an urgency and this needs to be dealt with. Timelines must be put in place. We need to see things, activities happening.
I'm really frustrated with the executive branch of this Liberal government because they don't sense the urgency. They just called their first group meeting last Thursday. She virtually just sent a letter to China last week looking for an invite to go to China with our officials. She hasn't talked to the Chinese ambassador here in Ottawa. She hasn't reached out through that avenue. The Prime Minister has said nothing on this issue. The Minister of Foreign Affairs had the lead on the issue yet refuses to come before any of the committees.
My concern now, as this will be our last meeting on this issue, is how we keep this front and centre. What's going to be the impact if we don't keep it front and centre? I'm concerned about that.
The other thing is that a lot of people think you can just swap markets right away. It's as if we've never been looking for new markets. How hard is it to develop a new market? What type of time frame would it take to replace this lost volume in China with other markets? You're not going to be able to do it tomorrow.
Maybe I'll start with Viterra. If you're going to develop new markets for—what are you looking at; maybe 10 million metric tons—how much time would it take to actually replace that? Just give us a ballpark answer.