Mr. Speaker, I have been here awhile and have been going through CETA for quite some time, from the time I was in opposition in the third party.
I always knew that it had great benefits for the agriculture industry, so I want to thank the member for her speech because I did not realize how much was involved here, the metrics around some of this, in terms of canola, rye, barley, grains, and oilseeds. I think two examples alone caught my attention: sugar beets, at $100 million per year; and pork, at $400 million per year alone. It is a substantial amount of growth that could be achieved through this agreement.
I am from a seafood area and the numbers are similar, though probably not to the same level as pork, but nevertheless the metrics are much the same.
For most of the producers in western Canada right now, what do they need in order to transition toward a much larger market, or is there much transition involved?
I am just trying to get a grasp of some of the difficulties there could be for them to transition to getting that amount of product over to Europe, including transportation from Alberta?