Agriculture committee  Yes, we are. It's directly because people have the wrong idea that ours was really higher than the New Zealand price, but just recently we were at l'Hôtel L'Oiselière, in Lévis, and they had this idea, but when you start to negotiate with some distributors like Berac Inc. or Agneaux de l'Est, you can get prices that are pretty close to that.

Agriculture committee  Thank you for travelling here to get to know our industry a little better. I represent the Centre d'expertise en production ovine du Québec, the CEPOQ, which is thus concerned with sheep production in Canada. To give you a brief profile, there are nearly one million ewes in Canada, and Quebec has approximately one-quarter of that number.