While some groups are concerned about the potential impact of a Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal on supply-management, other agriculture sectors are worried about what will happen if Canada is not part of that deal.
The Canadian Pork Council calls being part of the TPP crucial to the Canadian pork industry.
The Council says being part of the deal could see pork sales to Japan climb to 300 million dollars and the addition of 4 thousand jobs over the long-term.
Not being part of the deal would create what the Council considers to be enormous challenges.
Those would include a deterioration in the industry's ability to compete in the TPP member countries.
An analysis done for the Canadian Pork Council estimates being left out of a deal that includes Japan would cost this country's hog producers about 5 dollars an animal.
Because we export over 65 per cent of the country's total pork production, CPC Chair Rick Bergmann says the industry can not afford for Canada to be left out of a Trans Pacific Partnership arrangement.
