Mr. Chair, I thank the member opposite for the intervention.
Certainly there is sugar grown in Alberta. It is sugar beets; and refined down, it is white sugar. It is very similar.
The lady from the organization that the member is talking about was correct that there is no sugar cane grown here, but there are other substitutes out there and I would certainly ask them to entertain those.
The option of 85% certainly was considered, but what consumers were asking for was more than that. Processors will always say that it is too much, but it is the consumers we were addressing with this particular one. Consumers, on the other end of the scale, are saying that is where they want to go; that is the number that should be there. The 98% allows for spices, sugar, salt and all those other things.
We even produce salt in this country. Anybody who says they have to import salt is wrong, as well. The only mine I have in my area is a salt mine. They flood down into a salt deposit, bring it up, dry it, and so on. It is Sifto salt, a world-recognized name. It is actually in my riding.
So there are salts, sugars and other capacities in Canada to address that 98%. We have had a tremendous response from consumer groups and from farmers themselves saying this is where they want to be.
Certainly there are going to be naysayers from the processing side. We will work with them on a case-by-case basis to make sure that they have access to the—