Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I can only say I don't want you to be unduly concerned about these comments about the WTO. What's being referred to is what's called a chairman's draft. The reason the chairman of that section wrote this draft is that the discussions up until then weren't going anywhere because there was so much disagreement about what subsidies were and how they should be handled.
So our negotiators in the Department of Finance, as well as the DFO people who are assisting them, are certainly on top of this. The WTO works by consensus. Either everyone agrees or there's no agreement. It's not a majority vote or anything like that. So I can assure you that the government is certainly following this and is not about to sign off on some of those things that have been mentioned as possibilities here today.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.