Thank you all for being here today.
I'm going to turn to Mr. Slomp with the National Farmers Union. It seems that your organization represents a broad part of the agriculture sector, or I assume much of it, in many ways. I think you said you have experience or do produce both dairy and beef. It's nice to have someone who can probably look at this from all angles.
You started to mention some numbers around the CETA negotiations. I'm wondering if we could dive down into those a bit. The ones I have are that, at the start of the CETA negotiations, Canada had 30,000 tonnes of tariff-free market access for beef and pork together, but it only exported 1,000 tonnes of beef and 100 tonnes of pork annually. Under CETA, the negotiators gave away 17,500 tonnes of the cheese market, which is equivalent to the entire Nova Scotia dairy market, yet we still are not exporting significantly more beef to Europe, by the numbers I have.
I'm just wondering if those things are totally unrelated. Was the cheese market given away for other negotiations? It doesn't seem like beef and pork really need any more help in Europe. I just want to get some clarity there.