International Trade committee  Thank you. I'm going to take the question. We have to be able to sit down with our trading nations at times to negotiate new trade deals as well as to update older ones. To be able to do that, we need to be able to effectively engage in those conversations. As you can imagine,

International Trade committee  If I may jump in—

International Trade committee  It's in a future FTA with the U.K. and also as we move into CPTPP. It has to be imperative in both of them.

International Trade committee  I can tell you that it was a robust discussion for our board to go down that path, but it has been extremely frustrating that we have not been able to access the European market, including the U.K. market, as we had anticipated. Some of the problems are within Canada. We haven't

International Trade committee  Yes, and some of that, I guess, would be from my colleague previously, John Masswohl, who would perhaps have some more context on that. We can get back to you, but I think there was a discussion about what this could look like in a number of different avenues, whether it was an F

International Trade committee  I think we would anticipate—and maybe others have further comments—a full consultation process that would normally go along with free trade agreements.

International Trade committee  I think it was different from previous FTA consultations, but to be fair, we were engaged regularly.

International Trade committee  Maybe I can answer that. I think it is a challenging position that we're all in. Of course, it's not just this government's dollars; it's all of our dollars. I think we need figure out a solution.

International Trade committee  It's challenging, admittedly, but I think we all have to put our oars in the water and figure out a way forward. We also have to figure out a way to come back and renegotiate a real FTA.

International Trade committee  I would just say that we would be extremely disappointed if this were a forever agreement.

International Trade committee  I suppose our discussions started when Brexit was clearly moving forward, so for some period of time we've been saying that we need to look at what a future FTA with the U.K. could look like. Certainly there has been more consistent dialogue over the last couple of months.

International Trade committee  We communicate on a number of the different priorities we would like to see for both a transitional agreement and a longer-term FTA. I think all the topics you covered would commonly be discussed.

International Trade committee  I think we are expecting the details to come out sometime soon. As you said, we have heard that it's a rollover of CETA. I guess our communication back has been that we recognize the importance of the transitional agreement in not creating a large gap in the trading relationship,

International Trade committee  We would hope that in our future trading relationship with the U.K. they would follow international best guidelines and recommendations on the use of innovative technologies that would allow us to reduce our environmental footprint. I guess what I'm going to say is that we'll wai

International Trade committee  Yes, I could. I would first say that farms in Canada are small to medium-sized businesses. Some of our challenges in shipping into the European market are getting the audits completed to be able to send into that market. We would say that for the U.K., first of all, we should r