I have met many representatives of other countries, and what we have always found surprising is how poorly other countries understand our systems. We have to explain that what we do is different from what the Europeans do. The Europeans have quotas in the dairy sector as we do, but they continue to export. The issue there has really been to reduce export subsidies. In Canada, our goal is not the same at all. Our primary goal is to supply our domestic market. When we tell people that, they say they were unaware of it.
Last week, we learned about the Japan issue, which I mentioned earlier. I did not know that Japan had established what we call specific tariffs. Japan did not have the fixed-percentage tariffs we call ad valorem tariffs. In making the conversion, Japan ended up with very high tariffs.
The mechanisms of individual countries' programs are often poorly understood. We try to standardize systems, and end up with the result we have here. It is extremely difficult to reach an agreement.