Thank you, Chair.
I'd like to thank the witnesses for their participation on this important study. As was mentioned earlier, we did have some members of the committee go to Washington. We had some very interesting discussions. We met with people from different parties. We talked a lot about, obviously, supply management. We explained the situation here in Canada that the federal government did nothing to limit diafiltered milk coming into Canada. It was a negotiation that was done among processors.
I was wondering, Mr. Bonnett, if you can talk about your experience in Washington and what the feeling was because we are going to go into a renegotiation of NAFTA. A lot of people whom we met with, especially the farm groups, did not want many changes, just harmonization. I think our emphasis should be on dealing with non-trade tariff barriers, and maybe on the importance of moving forward when we negotiate trade deals. We would deal with the importance of eliminating and reducing trade barriers at the beginning instead of having to, after the fact, have a trade deal; and then spending countless hours in time and money on trying to resolve these issues that really hold up trade.