That's a good question.
There are two answers to your question: yes and no.
First of all, I would say that if CUSMA is simply renewed in its current form, we would be more than content to have that, especially if it's a 16-year renewal, which is what our industry and the American agri-food industries are pushing for.
Are there areas that could be improved? Absolutely, there are. One I would highlight is the RCC, the Regulatory Cooperation Council. We need to get that back online. We need to get that work recommencing. There's a lot of regulatory harmonization that we can have between Canada and the U.S.
As I look towards Mexico, there is a role for the CFIA and the Government of Canada to play to ensure that our inspection systems have equivalency and that there is inspection consistency, because sometimes when we send beef products or pork products down there, we see that one inspector decides one way and another Mexican inspector decides a different way. That has a real impact when our companies are spending dollars to export product down to Mexico, only for it to be sent back to Canada. We had a case about two months ago of beef from Manitoba that was sent down to Mexico, reached the border and then had to be sent back because of inspection inconsistencies.
