Madam Chair, if this is directed to me first, thank you for the question.
Unfortunately, I'm not familiar with your June 2019 report on SMEs, so I will take a look at that. However, as I said in my opening remarks, if we don't have a deal in place by January 1, we will face higher tariffs that could be prohibitive in the marketplace. For some companies, it could represent a large portion of their exports. For individual companies, that could be ultimately catastrophic, particularly on top of all of the impacts from the COVID pandemic and the loss of the food service markets.
In terms of what more the government can do, certainly for my members, as a service to them, I try to make them aware of as many of the government agencies as possible that are there to assist exporters, whether it be EDC or BDC, or many of the other acronyms that Mr. Poirier had mentioned in his remarks.
In fact, one of the things that changed during the pandemic, and we thank the government for this, is that Farm Credit Canada expanded its financing authorities to include the frozen-at-sea factory vessels. They are the large vessels that process as well as harvest. That added financing capability will be very important now and in the years to come as we go through a fleet renewal.