Mr. Chair, I absolutely agree. Country of origin labelling is driving the need for more processing capacity here in this country. We have started to address that. If we find that there is tremendous uptake, I will go back to cabinet and argue that it should be expanded. I am more than prepared to do that.
I am not sure of the issue the member is talking about with respect to rabbits having to travel 12 hours. Is this to get to a federally inspected plant as opposed to a provincial plant, so that they can be exported? Certainly that is a factor. The market will drive that.
If there is a demand for rabbit, the program that we have will allow the provincially inspected plant to upgrade to a federal plant. It can make an application under the slaughter-capacity program that we are just bringing out.