In the United Kingdom, there are of course specialty cheeses of interest to Canadians. The United Kingdom will definitely target this market here in Canada. There is also beef. People may not know this, but we import more beef from the United Kingdom than we export to them. And yet Canada is a much larger producer on a world scale.
It all stems from the same phenomena. Firstly, market protection. The United Kingdom has applied the same non-tariff measures as Europe. We would not want to see this repeated in the renegotiation of a bilateral agreement with the United Kingdom.
Then of course, support for farm producers can take many forms. In Europe, such support often comes via green measures. This makes European producers more competitive in terms of exports.
The fact is that Canadian producers are not playing on the same hockey rink as European and American producers. It's as if we were on a different ice surface, with different skates, a different kind of stick and none of the goalie equipment needed to stop a puck. And yet we're compared to them.