Thank you, Madam Chair and members of the committee We appreciate your having us here today. Greetings from the east coast.
The Lobster Council of Canada is the only table that represents the entire lobster value chain. We're unique in that respect. We have harvesters, dealers, live shippers, processors, first nations all represented around our table. We've been around for about 10 years and we focus on the market.
We focus on marketing and promotion of Canadian lobster, on building our brand around the world, on market intelligence, on communicating within our sector about what's happening in the market, and also on market access and dealing with market access issues, which come up all the time.
We've very thankful to work with your very good officials in GAC and with trade commissioners, whom we find to be excellent for us out in the world.
There is an important, mature and steady market for Canadian live and processed lobster. Over many decades of trade with our commonwealth partners, our exporters have developed strong relationships with restaurant chains.
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