Mr. Speaker, I am very pleased that a preliminary finding today by the U.S. department of commerce is very much in Canada's favour.
In the so-called R-Calf case, the DOC found no grounds to justify a countervailing duty on Canadian beef cattle exports. It reaffirmed that our NISA program is not countervailable and, for the seventh consecutive time in this decade, it vindicated the grain trading policies of the Canadian Wheat Board.
The Government of Canada will continue to work with our farm organizations and the provinces to ensure that this preliminary finding is confirmed in a final ruling later this year.