Mr. Speaker, this is questions or comments and I was making three interesting comments. Of course my comment on the Prime Minister's good work was in response to the member's comment.
The third comment I wanted to make was on the initiative that the minister, along with the members for Tobique—Mactaquac and Medicine Hat, took by going to Asia to meet, first of all, with Japan and Korea, because their acceptance of our beef is part of our problem with the United States, our biggest consumer.
The members went there and worked together. They talked about how the international review panel had reported on Canada. The Japanese gave us some ideas on what we could do to help get our beef back into Japan, which was very helpful. Then they went on to the United States, our biggest customer, of course, and met with American and Mexican officials to help improve the situation. All these efforts have certainly helped the situation. This is all work in progress on a very difficult issue.