Thank you. It seems to me that domestic support is the basis for a lot of the problems. If you look back to where domestic support was first provided, it was to create food self-sufficiency. Then it over-produced that, and then it put export subsidies in place. Countries that couldn't provide it put in place barriers so that they didn't have to accept subsidized product. That has been the history of it in over-simplified terms.
Going ahead, if we just look at bilaterals, bilaterals tend to exclude dealing with domestic support in any.... So if we just step over the fundamental reason that a lot of these trade problems exist and deal with the market access, we're treating a symptom. Treating a symptom has never worked very well if you ignore the real cause of the problem. And coming back to Ted's question as well, the real issue is whether or not we're capable of rationalizing domestic support.
The grains and oilseeds industry is competing on an international front with all of those domestic subsidies. The fact of the matter is we're dying on our feet doing it. We're dying on our feet as a country because we're allowing the value of our Canadian agriculture to be syphoned off, to be able to expand in other jurisdictions because we haven't dealt with that. To pretend that it's going to be dealt with by just dealing with subsets of it, or by dealing with it on an historic basis and institutionalizing the differences, is to say that we can continue to live in that regime. And we can't do that. We need to be very real in what we're talking about. We need to have real solutions, not just philosophy and optical illusion.