When negotiations between Canada and Europe began, nothing was excluded. Everything was on the table. That is still the case. We are following this negotiation through Gilles Gauthier, the negotiator for Canada on agricultural issues, and Steve Verheul, the chief negotiator for these negotiations. The government keeps telling us that everything is on the table, but to us, supply management is not negotiable. I think that is a very important position to maintain. Europe certainly has interests on the Canadian market. In the area of cheeses alone, Canada already imports 24,000 tons of cheese mainly from Europe.
As far as the openness of our market is concerned, we are already doing our share and our share is much larger than that of the United States or Europe. If every country offered 5% of their GDP, we would double international trade in agriculture. Canada is already doing its share; the trouble is that other countries are not. It is important to maintain a firm position on supply management. It is not negotiable. We are already doing our share. Whether we are talking about egg production or poultry production, we are already importing more than our share from the international market.