Thank you, Chair.
I looked at the information on the CFIA's website just yesterday. The last time we had our CFIA inspectors physically go to Brazil was in 2018, and for Argentina it was in 2015. They were physically in Paraguay and Uruguay in 2022, I believe.
One of the largest beef exporters in the world is Brazil, which is followed pretty closely by Argentina. Our message is to ensure we have an inspection equivalency, because our companies here in Canada spend millions of dollars a year to ensure they're CFIA-compliant—for good reason—but we need to ensure the folks importing into Canada are also CFIA-compliant.