Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I have a question for you about going to the World Trade Organization. Two years ago, in 2007, Belgium and the Netherlands also put a ban on Canada's seal products. If the World Trade Organization is such a successful and good organization to go to, why did your government not proceed with World Trade Organization sanctions at that particular time? Now you're saying that the World Trade Organization is going to solve our problems. If that were the case, why wouldn't we have started the process two years ago? This could take five years; we would have been two years into setting some precedents in the EU on trade talks.