I'd like to start by making the point that it's good to be paying attention to these issues that are going to happen in the future, but we have issues today, such as what to do about the EU deforestation regulation, that I'm not sure are getting the full attention, support and service they need.
One of the points I want to make is that we need to make sure we're adequately addressing the issues in front of us today before we get too worried about the issues that are in store for the future.
If you look at this need to reinvigorate multilateral approaches and collaboration across countries, we've seen the U.S. show leadership around a sustainable productivity growth coalition that's aiming to try to increase dialogue and collaboration between countries around the tools we will need to implement sustainable productivity growth and what practices can be used. That's an example of an effort there.
We've been holding an event yesterday and today. Yesterday morning, we had the deputy director general of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture come and speak, and he talked about the need to better align approaches across the Americas. There's a huge amount that Canada could do to show leadership, to help support capacity building and investments and to ensure more coordination and consistency across policies there. There is, unfortunately, a bit of a tendency to look away from the good work that groups like IICA are doing that we could be supporting more and that would proactively and positively encourage a more consistent and level playing field.
Again, we could be using some carrots internationally, rather than relying on sticks.