International Trade committee  We have a very well-developed exporting industry. It's transportation; it's logistics at ports, the trading houses, which are significant in cities like Toronto and Montreal. They have a huge role and significant value added, which will grow as a result of this agreement.

International Trade committee  We do have a figure. I think Ms. Citeau mentioned a $400-million figure, which we see ourselves getting back to after, say, five years and we're on the same terms of trade as our competitors. We do have a figure to indicate the increased value added in jobs, from a study we ha

International Trade committee  Thank you. I think, as Mr. de Kemp indicated, that the grain sector and the oilseed sector are both major contributors of inputs to the beef and the pork sectors, and there simply will be implications for them if that grain, which was able to be sold locally, has to be exported.

International Trade committee  I was just going to add that about a year ago, maybe weeks before the meeting of President Park and Prime Minister Harper, where there was this discussion to revive and bring the talks to a conclusion, our industry was really thinking that we were going to have to forget about Ko

International Trade committee  I would just add that in some respects it's a case of avoiding conditions where we could lose jobs because of the shrinkage of our exports, but I don't have a precise measure on that.

International Trade committee  Yes. Our provincial members would have been communicating to their provincial governments.

International Trade committee  We did take advantage, of course, of the opportunity to go over and meet with other EU country delegations and so on. I think that by that manner we were able to really participate in quite a wide cross-section of interests involved in those negotiations. We spent a lot of time h

International Trade committee  It's fair to say we support it unreservedly.

International Trade committee  Yes.

International Trade committee  I think the biotech sector or the grain sector is still looking for further clarification on how the issue of low-level presence in residue monitoring is going to be addressed. Certainly in the case of meat, there are still some details to be worked out on testing protocols and o

International Trade committee  I'd say our position in terms of the deal in principle that we've seen at this point is unreserved, but those issues have to be addressed as well.

International Trade committee  Those are two major issues. We don't see them, though, as deal breakers or deal preventers.

International Trade committee  I don't think it necessarily involves more investment. I think it's more a matter of acceptance of reasonable levels of risk, practical levels of risk, in terms of how sensitive testing technologies are. Say you find one in 50 trillion residues in a container ship, for example. T

International Trade committee  I guess it's a matter of the different crop varieties and whether or not they have the technology to detect that. I think if there's something that you want to monitor, you can test for it, and find some means of doing it, but there would be no point—

International Trade committee  In those cases, those are provisory. They're not producing themselves. They haven't approved them for their own use yet. That's why they—