Thank you.
Thank you to everyone for being here today.
I'm going to start with Mr. Lemaire of the Canadian Produce Marketing Association.
I represent a riding that has a lot of fruit growing, a lot of soft fruits like cherries, peaches, apricots, etc. You mentioned the particular problem of perishable food. In crossing the border, you can't have it sitting there waiting for some dispute to be worked out. You can't go to a CUSMA panel and see what those cherries are going to face. What is in the present CUSMA to deal with that? Is there some sort of rapid-action mechanism that can be applied?
What often happens is that when there is a big cherry crop in Washington state, suddenly our market is flooded with Washington cherries at very low prices. We call it dumping, and that has a huge impact on our domestic market.
I'm wondering what mechanisms are available to the Canadian industry to counteract that, and whether we use them. If they're not in the present agreement, should they be?