The system as it stands right now is already incredibly complex. Whenever the Auditor General looks at this, which goes back 20 or 30 years, he or she finds somewhere between one in five to one in three of these products being classified incorrectly by the importer. You have importers paying either too much or too little tax, because they're applying these tariffs incorrectly. This is a very, very burdensome system. There's a lot of red tape here. We really need to look at how we can decrease that. One of the ways we can decrease it is by having fewer tariff treatments. If we can harmonize MFN and GPT, that's one less thing that importers need to worry about.
On May 21st, 2013. See this statement in context.