Thank you very much.
Just as a preamble, in my consultations across the country on this whole topic of food sovereignty and food security, a lot of people are raising the issue of trade and domestic agriculture, and sometimes the negative effect of the WTO and globalization. They are using the example of what we did before NAFTA, the in-season tariffs we used to have protecting vegetable producers in Ontario and across Canada. We don't see those now.
Mr. Gilroy, you mentioned dumping. We may have discussed this already, but I know I have certainly discussed this with Joe Sardinha, from B.C., and others. What would happen if American apples were dumped and right away we slapped on an immediate tariff? Rather than going through the panel and getting lawyers and fighting it—because by that time it would probably be too late, because apple producers would have lost money—could we have a floor price, so you couldn't dump apples in Canada below a certain price?
I ask because we know there are many, many apple producers in my province and yours who have gone out of business and are scrambling and trying to develop new varieties, and doing all of the things you folks are doing--and growing grapes.
So what would happen if we were to do that? Has there ever been a thought from the Canadian Horticultural Council to propose that and to work with government to do that?