Thanks, Mr. Chair.
I want to follow up on what Mr. Thibault started talking about, which is that in the program of WTO, things aren't looking good. As you said, Canada and the U.S. are very close in our position that we want to have more trade liberalization. It's important to our red meat sector and to our grain and oilseed sectors. But it doesn't look good.
You mentioned bilaterals, and of course as a Canadian government we're moving forward with more bilaterals. You do gain market access, under most favoured nation status, when you sign these bilaterals. The problem, though, is that this still doesn't deal with all the distorting subsidies out there, whether they be in trade or production. It doesn't deal with phytosanitary issues that keep getting thrown at us, such as the European beef hormone ban.
How do we resolve this? If we can't get them to the table now, what do you figure the next step is going to be, from a WTO standpoint? Or is WTO going to become irrelevant?
Secondly, how do you see this all playing into the U.S. Farm Bill? You guys are in the process of bringing forward a new bill and you mentioned you were going to be very ambitious and roll back support, that it was production and export distorting. What framework are we looking at coming out of the U.S. administration? And are we going to see an actual reduction in the overall dollars spent, or are you just going to spend them differently?