I think there are a number of platforms from which the government ends up speaking about these issues with other countries. Certainly one of the platforms that was established, as was mentioned by Monsieur Bellavance, is the Cartagena protocol on biosafety. It's a protocol on biosafety under the Convention on Biological Diversity. That protocol is established to govern the international movement of living modified organisms, GMOs. Canada signed but never ratified that agreement. This is becoming a critical issue now that Environment Canada will be asked, or could already have been asked, to decide in 120 days that GE salmon eggs could be produced in Prince Edward Island and shipped to Panama. That's international shipping of a living modified organism, yet we haven't signed the international agreement. That's one thing Canada could do to participate in an existing international forum.
On December 16th, 2010. See this statement in context.