Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses for being with us today.
I'm going to begin with Ms. MacNeil.
I'd like to start by reading into the record a letter of request that you had put in to appear here. In that letter, you wrote:
...for a nearly two-year period, Tree of Life was unable to bring cream into the Canadian market, despite there being no domestic supply – which came at the expense of our thousands of customers. Tree of Life was finally granted supplemental cream TRQ in 2021, after a lengthy, costly and administratively burdensome process.
As my colleague had referenced earlier, it seems that the non-tariff barrier facing your operations is more on the regulatory administrative issue around the TRQs here from the Canadian government.
How do we fix it?
You talked about a TRQ review that started in 2019. Can you provide some of your suggestions on how we can go about fixing that?
Who have you spoken to in the government? Have you spoken to departmental officials? Have you spoken to the minister's office?