Yes, for the most part. But you mustn't forget that Brazil and Thailand are now part of the market. The US may even be overtaken, on the Canadian market, by these two exporting countries.
If we changed the rule to go from 87% to 20% chicken content we think the United States would probably be exempted. I had understood that in the case of dairy protein there was an exemption for the United States.
Under the Free Trade Agreement today, there are products the United States may export to Canada which are not on the list. These are specific products for the US. For our part we think that products coming from Thailand, of which we've seen an increase over the last year or two, and products from Brazil could be blocked from entering Canada.
If only US products remained, we would already have achieved something. It could be positive for the Americans in a way. Their already registered products would be protected. I'll give you a few examples: chicken Cordon Bleu and chicken Kiev. These are very specific products that the Americans, under the Free Trade Agreement, are entitled to export to Canada duty free. In that sense they get preferential treatment. However, this privilege could be lost if Thailand or Brazil were to become more competitive and manage to get these products into Canada. Changing the 13% rule would give them some protection. In exchange for this protection, we could put a ceiling on imports to keep them at the level they are at today.
To get back to the question that was asked earlier on, there's been an increase and it would be difficult to bring about a decrease. If at least we could stop this hemorrhaging, things would be better.