Gladly.
I don't believe the supply-managed commodities are holding anything up at the negotiations. Of course the House motion in November of 2005 has sort of put a handcuff on our agricultural negotiator, Steve Verheul. The bottom line is zero tariff reductions and zero increase in the TRQs.
However, the thing that disturbs me is that we're not the only ones with that position. The European Union and the Americans are talking about a 60% reduction in the over-quota tariffs, but that will not require them to increase their market access to any other country. They're being very hypocritical when they're talking about reducing the tariffs by 60% and then talking about an increase in the TRQs, because they don't have to do anything.
We're being very honest when we're stating zero-zero, because if there is any deal that says that there's a reduction in tariffs or an increase in the TRQs, supply management is going to need help. It's going to be very serious. We need to talk about honesty and hypocrisy when we're talking about the WTO.