Video transcript
[An important message appears on a black screen.]
Text on screen: Dear neighbors, this video was shot prior to COVID-19. With the pandemic, Canada has remained and will continue to be a committed trading partner with the U.S. We're focused on ensuring food security, protecting workers and supporting jobs and businesses on both sides. Cheers, your Canadian Neighbors.
[Positive country music begins.]
[Video opens with a clip of Cameron Bergen in a warehouse standing for an interview.]
Voice of Cameron Bergen: We're based out of Blumenort, Manitoba.
[Cut to Lloyd Wiebe standing for an interview in a seed harvesting yard.]
Voice of Lloyd Wiebe: We're in southern Manitoba, so we're six miles from the U.S. border.
[Cut to Arnie Peterson standing for an interview in the same seed harvesting yard.]
Voice of Arnie Peterson: I'm from Cavalier, North Dakota, which is at the north end of the Red River Valley.
[Cut to clip of Jeffrey Dyck in a kitchen standing for an interview.]
Voice of Jeffrey Dyck: We're situated right here on the border between Canada and the U.S.
[Cut to clip of transport truck driving down a country road. A white rectangle with text appears on screen.]
Text on screen: U.S. and Canada. Let's Keep a Good Thing Growing.
Jeffrey: It's so important to have that relationship with…
[Cut to Jeffrey being interviewed. A white banner with text and an image of a Canadian flag appears on screen.]
Text on screen: Jeffrey Dyck. Owner, Nora's Diner.
Jeffrey: … a country that's… It's like right there. It's right nextdoor. We have people coming here from Grand Forks.
[Cut to clip of Jeffrey watching people enter the diner from the kitchen.]
Jeffrey: They're like our neighbours.
[Cut to Arnie Peterson being interviewed. A white banner with text and an image of a U.S. flag appears on screen.]
Text on screen: Arnie Peterson. Farmer, Cavalier ND.
Arnie: About two years ago, we were introduced to Nora's Diner…
[Cut to close up of Nora's Diner menu.]
Arnie: … and it's become our favourite…
[Cut to time lapse of traffic passing in front of Nora's Diner.]
Arnie: … spot to stop for dinner.
[Cut to Arnie being interviewed.]
Arnie: And the border is not a hindrance. You show your passport card, you go in, you have dinner, you go home, check in with the U.S. They say, "What'd you have for dinner tonight, sir?" And I say…
[Cut to close up of a beef medallion dinner being prepared at Nora's Diner.]
Arnie: "We had the beef medallions." And they say, "Wonderful."
[Cut to Arnie being interviewed.]
Arnie: And we go home.
[Cut to clip of a truck driving into Steve's Livestock Transport facility.]
Cameron: Our organisation, with our 150 trucks…
[Cut to Cameron being interviewed. A banner with text and a Canadian flag appears on screen.]
Text on screen: Cameron Bergen. Director of Business Solutions, Steve's Livestock Transport.]
Cameron: … we will cross around 300 times a week.
[Cut to aerial clips of transport trucks driving around the facility.]
Cameron: We supply the pork that goes down and essentially feeds coast-to-coast throughout the U.S, and we bring back goods. And that integrated supply chain is what bolsters…
[Cut to Cameron being interviewed.]
Cameron: … the trade that we have.
[Cut to clip of a cook frying pork.]
Lloyd: When I look at the pork side...
[Cut to Lloyd being interviewed. A white banner with text and an image of a Canadian flag appears on screen.]
Text on screen: Lloyd Wiebe. Farmer, Altona MB.
Lloyd: … it's kind of interesting, because we also work together…
[Cut to aerial clip of a grain harvester making a line in a field.]
Lloyd: ... with a Saskatoon-based company, but it's owned by a…
[Cut to clip of a Texas welcome sign on a country road.]
Lloyd: … Texas-based company. So…
[Cut to Lloyd being interviewed.]
Lloyd: … our genetics come from a Canadian company owned by a U.S. company, but we grow our pigs here…
[Cut to clip of a worker holding a handful of feed grade over a bucket.]
Lloyd: … our feed grades come from the United States…
[Cut to clip of a transport truck leaving a shipping facility.]
Lloyd: … we ship the product back, and have…
[Cut to clip of an employee packaging meat products]
Lloyd: … close working relationships with the packers.
[Cut to Lloyd being interviewed.]
Lloyd: So part of that integrated model is really gate to plate.
[Cut to another aerial clip of a transport truck leaving the shipping facility.]
Arnie: Your livestock on the Canadian side comes to the U.S…
[Cut to clip of a worker moving a pallet of packaged meat in the shipping facility.]
Arnie: … for processing, and then…
[Cut to wide clip of the loading docks inside the shipping facility.]
Arnie: … it's exported to the U.S., which is helping…
[Cut to Arnie being interviewed.]
Arnie: … our side of the border provide corn and soybean meal for that livestock that is raised on this side. So it's a cooperation between the two countries 100%, and it works well.
[Cut to aerial clip of farmland. A white square with text and illustrations of commonly traded goods appears on screen.]
Text on screen: In 2019, Canada was the #1 export market for U.S. agricultural products.
[Cut to close-up of a reserved table sign in Nora's Diner. A white square with text and an illustration of blue transport trucks appears on screen.]
Text on screen: Over $15B of processed food and beverage products made in the U.S. were exported to Canada in 2019.
[Cut to aerial clip of Arnier and Lloyd walking down a dirt road between two farm fields on the Canada-U.S.border. A white square with text and a graphic of Canadian and U.S. flags on interchanging arrows appears on screen.]
Text on screen: The U.S. exports more to Canada than to Japan, China, and the United Kingdom combined!
[Cut to close up of Arnie and Lloyd standing on the same dirt road.]
Arnie and Lloyd together: Let's keep a good thing growing.
[Pan out as they shake hands. A white rectangle with text appears on screen.]
Text on screen: For more information, please visit agr.gc.ca/agpartners.
[Cut to the Canada wordmark. Positive country music ends.]
Text on screen: Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, represented by the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food (2020).
[Screen cuts to black.]