Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Louis, I'll get straight to the point, since I have only two and a half minutes.
You don't want to stop the slaughter of horses, but rather their export by air. You said that horses are sensitive animals, but all animals are sensitive. Yet we transport pigs, calves, cattle and chickens. That's why standards have been implemented for this type of transportation.
I'll focus on my first point. If you don't want people to stop eating horse meat, then your goal isn't to declare the horse a noble animal, but simply to ban the export of horses by air. Personally, I think that the solution lies in reviewing transportation standards, which requires inspections. We talked about this earlier.
If you think that other livestock won't be affected, don't you also think that this could set a precedent? For example, next time we could say that pigs aren't protected from the wind during transportation by truck, and that we need to review the standards. So why don't we review these standards? Personally, that's where I have trouble getting my head around this. Can you explain what you mean?