International Trade committee  A lot of it comes from creating the atmosphere by making sure that we have the personnel, but right now one of our biggest issues out on the land is keeping young people there with some of the other industry and the competition. Forestry, actually, with the downturn that they've

International Trade committee  The OIE standards—I'm sorry, I always get lost in what the initials actually stand for—but it's really our world health organization for veterinary practices, for animal health. A lot of those standards are left to interpretation by the country, so there are certain rules that mi

International Trade committee  Not overly, at this point, for the simple reason that we've had a very good and open relationship with the government trade groups with Minister Ritz and Minister Fast in putting forward what it will take for us and what we require going forward in any market. We have a very stro

International Trade committee  It could, but I guess at the end of the day—

International Trade committee  Basically if we have just a domestic market—let's take all of our trade out of it—we would probably only utilize about 85% of that carcass. The other 15% becomes waste and it's not so much waste as it is underutilized product. It might go into pet food.

International Trade committee  Hot dogs are actually quite good now. They got a bad wrap over the years. The ability for us to utilize those comes because some of these countries utilize them. A real simple one is our livers and our tongues. We use very little of that here in Canada. A real good example is t

International Trade committee  At the high level definitely Japan and Korea are going to utilize a lot of the things like the external what we call offal, and at a very high level. You'll notice too here in Canada short ribs. If you go out to buy a short rib, it's extremely hard to buy now because that is one

International Trade committee  We know right now with the issues that we're having with the U.S. and around COOL, country of origin labelling, and the protectionism that goes...by signing a multilateral agreement such as this we live under the same rules and regulations of both processing and of how we tariff

International Trade committee  Exactly.

International Trade committee  Yes, it does. The TPP, while we had signed an agreement and we worked with them together, has very much become a trade barrier, especially when we work with China and Japan at this point. They've utilized a lot of it to restrict us in a manner whereby it's just not economical f

International Trade committee  In Asia, in TPP, it would be Australia and New Zealand, and a lot of that is geography and proximity to the market.

International Trade committee  Negotiations have proceeded, but there are no agreements that I am aware of yet.

International Trade committee  Yes, it is. Through our Ottawa office of the Canadian Cattlemen's Association, John Masswohl has been very engaged in the process with our Canadian government in putting forward the facts. We also have what we call our Five Nations Beef Alliance, where we ourselves are partnered

International Trade committee  We're in a bit of a unique position because of the effects of BSE right now. What we've really seen since BSE was discovered in 2003 is the use of that as a trade barrier. In joining in a partnership with TPP, a lot of these barriers have been more prevalent in the Pacific Rim an

International Trade committee  Definitely a benefit in that aspect, and I have to take my hat off to Minister Ritz and Minister Fast for the work they've done on trade. One of the things, especially with our different industries, is that we're a global market. We're a global community now. We can't necessarily