Good evening.
I'd like to provide some context for Mr. Turnbull: I think the concerns submitted by producers and the industry during our study last week were legitimate. Of course, there is much less risk with a frozen product, but the risk still exists at the processing stage.
Our point was not to say that this decision is not based on science, but that it represents a new loophole in supply management, allowed by a government that always promises us that this is the last loophole and that there will never be another.
Mr. Morel, you will not be surprised by my first question: why did you not wait for the committee's report before authorizing the import? This authorization was not in force last week, when we were doing the study. The next day, however, it came into force, before we finished our work, which I would like to understand.