Thank you for the question.
I would like to stress the fact that there is a need for provincially inspected plants. Our question is not there. It is when it is time to make trade interprovincial. We do not question the reality on the ground that there is a market that is serviced by those little—most of the time—processing plants, especially in communities that are far from the large centres.
Our objective is to make sure that we keep the trust. To make sure that we keep this trust, we have to keep a standard that will allow the interprovincial trade to upgrade to the same standard as the federally inspected plant. If we do this, we will create confidence not only for our consumers but also internationally, because if there were an erosion of interprovincial trade and, after exportation of this meat, there would be substandard levels of food security, then it could create a major issue for the confidence of our international partners.