Back in 2003 we prepared a very detailed summary of subsidies to agriculture in the United States, and in New Zealand, because it's a myth that New Zealand agriculture is not subsidized. It's also a myth that Australian agriculture is not subsidized, given the extent of free irrigation they provide to their agriculture. It could wipe out our low-end wine industry, because in Australia they just have too many grapes, so they have to put them in Yellow Tail bottles.
So there are subsidies. There are subsidies in Europe; there are subsidies in the United States. They're not going to go away. We prepared a very detailed analysis of all the subsidies in the United States and of the activities of the New Zealand Dairy Board/Fonterra, and presented it to the government. It took them three years to do anything with it. The approach they took has not been terribly aggressive in pursuing this.
In the Uruguay Round, we bought and paid for better behaviour by other countries on their subsidies. That hasn't been delivered. We're at risk of paying for the same “fish” twice. We have to have a more focused, more aggressive, and more farmer friendly farm policy in Canada.