In regard to veterinarians, I think a lot of this stuff goes back to some of the issues we had with COVID and with border issues at some of our ports. It has become a labour issue on the veterinary side. It's to no one's surprise that veterinarians here in western Canada and across the country are harder and harder to.... We're putting fewer graduates through college, and we're seeing older veterinarians in Canada retire. I'm thinking that the situation is similar in the U.S.
For a time, we had BSE issues. That was from 2003 until now, with the negligible risk status change that happened last year. That was 20 years in the making from our first BSE case. That issue is very slowly rectifying itself.
On Bill C-282, we see it as an impediment. It just throws up another irritant to the U.S. It's protecting one industry at the expense of other industries. We see protecting supply management as one of those things that becomes a trade irritant, especially when we're looking at the potential for another country of origin labelling protectionism non-tariff trade barrier in the United States.
We're asking the United States to not implement country of origin labelling. We've gone through this numerous times in the last 20 years. Canadians have always won those cases, but then we go and introduce Bill C-282, which protects one industry over another. We highlight an issue but the U.S. can say, “We're looking at country of origin labelling, but you're protecting your industries as well.”