Thank you, Mr. Chair, and to our guests, thank you as well.
My question revolves around agriculture. We talked about wine; Mr. McLaren, you talked about the wine industry. My neighbour here and I come from different parts of the country, but we represent wine regions. Certainly one of the concerns I have is the agriculture subsidies in the EU and in some of those places, and whether it's very tough to actually challenge.
Do you feel that's going to be addressed? As a government we were able to lower the excise tax on 100% VQA wine here in Canada, and the EU challenged us on that. The fact that they get access to all our markets through the LCBO and these other things is not that disturbing, but they have 70% market share versus our own Canadian wines here in Canada. We could be doing more.
My question really is around agriculture subsidies. I could talk about any product, but I'm going to talk about wine in particular, because that's what's near and dear to my heart. Is there any way we can address this?