Mr. Chair, that is a good question. I would not want to do anything wrong on the procedure at this hour because I do not know whether I am out of time for answering questions, but I will answer it anyway.
There have been many efforts made. The previous minister of agriculture did a tour of Japan, Korea, et cetera, to try to open markets there. The current minister will be doing a tour next week of Japan, Hong Kong, Korea and some other countries to talk about our beef industry, the kinds of products we have and the high quality food and safety measures that we have in order to open up markets.
I was in Moscow recently. There is a population of 16 million in the Moscow region. That is half of Canada's population. We need to be looking to those markets to try to lessen our dependence on the U.S. market because obviously the U.S. does not believe in free trade and rules based trade. That is the reality. We have to look at other markets around the world. We are making every effort in that regard.
As well, the Department of International Trade and our embassies abroad are also trying to open up markets for Canadian products, including beef products. We are in fact moving embryos to Russia right now. There are markets opening up for some of our cattle in those ways as well.
I want to point out that every effort is being made. The bottom line is we want to do the best for our producers because to a great extent they are this country's engine of economic growth.