Good morning. Thank you for being here.
I have a lot of questions. I wish I had that original seven minutes, although I'll try to make do.
The first question I have is with regard to subsidies and trade. All of you have addressed this issue. Mr. Bartley mentioned foreign subsidies injury. We talked of dispute resolution, Mr. Kuhl, and we talked about the WTO.
In British Columbia, we heard from the B.C. Fruit Growers' Association, who initially came out with a statement with regard to dumping of Washington State apples, saying they would like to have a rapid response tariff mechanism in place that if apples were dumped today then something would kick in tomorrow, rather than going through this dispute resolution, which takes time, and by the time it's finished it's too late.
Recently they've come out with the idea of minimum pricing. In other words, instead of having some kind of dispute or tariffs, there is a minimum price for any apples that come into Canada. They would have to get that minimum price. Would you see that as an answer for corn, for example, where heavily subsidized American corn wouldn't be dumped in Canada by a price lower than production? That's the first question.
The other question is with regard to WTO and the whole idea of getting more markets and liberalizing trade. Yet at the same time, our government has committed to protecting supply management and we have other state enterprises, such as the Wheat Board, which other countries would like us to disband, the same as the supply management. How do we protect what we have and at the same time get more markets?
The other question is on rail. Are you experiencing difficulties apart from the strike?
And soy, can we get more value added in soy? Although we export 85% soy, we import soy to make soy drinks; these drinks are then Canadian, which touches on that labelling or content issue we talked about earlier.
Can you answer all those questions, please?