I can't speak to the negotiations between Global Affairs and their European counterparts. What I can tell you is that we do have access, in this country, for about 30 million kilos of EU product, most of which comes as specialty cheeses, but there are some commodity-based products. That's the access they have to our market. I'm not sure what access we have to their market or the access we gave up in order to have access in pork or whatnot.
At the end of the day, I think you might be drilling down to the fact that the most advantaged sector is the dairy manufacturers, the big processors. They're the ones who get the most licence and they're the ones who control most of the imported cheese quota in this country.
Whether it's CETA, with 50% of the 15 million kilos, or whether it's the CUSMA, with almost 100%.... That one broke. It was an 80-20 rule, whereby 80% went to the processors and 20% came to the distributors.
What ended up happening is that the U.S. challenged that. Then Global Affairs said, “Okay, we'll have it your way.” In the spirit of the agreement, instead of some of it coming to distributors to deal with the breadth and depth of the manufacturers in the U.S., like many of the small manufacturers, they said, “No, have it your way” and they removed the 20%. Now it's the more you sell, the more you get.
For example, sir, I got 10,000 kilos of butter from the U.S. and about 13,000 kilos of cheese, which I used to buy from many small producers in the United States. After Canada dug in its heels on its ruling, I now have 900 kilos of butter and about 2,000 kilos of specialty cheese to bring in.
The Canadian manufacturers, I'll tell you, sir, have plants in the U.S. What they'll end up doing is bringing their commodity-based products from the U.S. into their Canadian plants with all of that CUSMA licence. There, their product cost is half, and they get to sell it for the same price in Canada. You tell me if that's the spirit of the agreement. Of course our trading partners are up in arms.
I would say to you, sir, that it was the same with TPP, but CUSMA is the best example. The United States is challenging that one more time.
I hope I've answered your question; I don't know if I understood it correctly.