To understand why we ended up with this provision—which is a very unusual provision—you really have to understand the nature of the U.S. concerns that were being expressed with respect to Canada's supply management system for dairy, and in particular the concerns that were linked to the introduction of class 7 in 2017. Following the introduction of that dairy class, which was intended to generate investment in the dairy sector to drive the acquisition of new technologies and allow for the production of new and innovative products, the U.S. saw certain markets for dairy exports to Canada reduced significantly. They also saw significant increases in the export of certain Canadian dairy products to third markets around the world, which they alleged was displacing U.S. exports that had traditionally gone to those markets.
Whether we accepted the U.S. argument or not is one thing, but it was clear that this was an important issue to them, and I would agree with Mr. Verheul, who said that without an outcome on dairy, there was not likely to be an outcome overall. We explored many ways of addressing their specific concerns with respect to exports to third markets. Ultimately, this was the one that proved workable for the two parties.