These issues are very important for Canada. It's a long-standing position of the Canadian government to address the issue of both domestic support—subsidies that countries pay to their farmers—and export competition—subsidies that are provided to help the farmers of a country be extra-competitive in the foreign market. It is a long-standing position of the government to address these issues in trade agreements.
The issue of domestic support is very challenging to address in a bilateral trading context, because it's a measure you apply.... Why would you subscribe to specific rules with only one of your trading partners? You're ready to do it if all your other trading partners are obeying the same rules. This is an issue that we're advancing, for example, in the context of the World Trade Organization. That said, the negotiations at that level are a so-called revolving door. Let's just say they have been proceeding at a very slow pace over the past few years.
This is definitely an objective we are encouraging, short of trade negotiations. We're encouraging our trading partners to take the same approach we do in Canada, which is to apply strict discipline in the introduction of new programs that may have a trade-distorting effect.