Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank the witnesses for their presentation.
In particular, I want to thank Mr. Lampron, whom I hadn't seen for a long time. Mr. Lampron is a dairy farmer in Saint Boniface. He was elected president of Dairy Farmers of Canada. I'm very happy to meet him as the president of this organization.
I believe the words I say the most often in the House of Commons are “farmer” and “supply management”. For a period of time, it was “diafiltered milk”. We're currently renegotiating NAFTA. In this context, we're following Donald Trump's tweets. We don't want to believe everything they contain, but they sometimes scare us. When we signed NAFTA, milk was not at stake. However, certain leaks regarding the subject and some news going around indicate that the Americans really want to take on our market and have access to it.
Can you comment on the subject?
I believe that we're in the fourth round of NAFTA renegotiations.
Can you talk about the importance of protecting our supply management system and not creating a breach in the system?
There have always been breaches in our other trade agreements, in particular the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, or CETA, and the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement. We must fully protect our supply management system and ensure that this issue won't make it to the negotiating table.