Thank you for your question.
I think one of the challenges of the TPP negotiations had to do with the makeup of the participating countries, three in particular that are major dairy exporters—Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. We were in good company in terms of other countries having concerns about their own dairy productions. Japan and the U.S. share those concerns.
Looking beyond the TPP, we see that the WTO Doha talks have moved at a snail's pace since 2008. When we consider the fact that we have negotiated a free trade agreement with the European Union that includes market access concessions, in addition to the TPP, it is clear that Canada has a very active free trade agenda. Canada has free trade agreements with the world's leading dairy product exporters.
When we consider dairy products, although there's no guarantee that other countries won't express an interest in gaining greater access to the Canadian market in the future, the TPP negotiations do show that we have been able to preserve our supply management system and that we should be able to ensure full protection going forward, as well.
The same dynamic applies to the poultry sector, as far as chicken, turkey, and eggs are concerned. The U.S. is one of the world's most competitive poultry-producing markets. There again, under the TPP agreement, not only were we able to negotiate market access conditions that kept supply management intact, but we were also able to achieve mitigation terms that we believe will make it possible for us to work with industry towards a very bright future.