Thank you for that editorial comment.
I can assure you that the Government of Canada has been actively involved in the rules negotiations. We have been making our views known. We will continue to make our views known. We will ensure that the inshore fishery, and indeed the Canadian fishing industry, is not harmed but actually benefits strongly from any WTO outcome.
The de minimis proposal came because we had to wait for a chair's text. We had to work our way through the various issues, identify the problem areas, which we have done, and develop a strategy for responding to deficiencies in the text. That was the timeframe in which the process was operating.