Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Thank you for your presentations. It may be easy to explain this subject, but it is not easy to deal with it politically. I've noticed that since the Conservatives were elected, there has been more and more talk of Canada's isolation at the WTO, which no doubt was also the case under the previous government. Why is there a sudden focus on Canada's isolation, in particular as regards the protection of supply management? I guess this is the argument of the proponents of that theory.
The minister, Mr. Chuck Strahl, made the same argument two or three times before the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food. I wonder whether this state of isolation isn't due to bad management on Canada's part.
For instance, Australia, New Zealand and the United States are constantly attacking us on the issue of dairy products, and Canada has never replied that those countries have set up roadblocks to products entering their territory by invoking various arguments, including the lack of sanitary standards.
First, I wonder why people are suddenly publicly talking about the isolation of Canada, and, second, I wonder whether this was not the result of a bad strategy. I don't think Canada has really tried to explain what supply management is to other countries. I'm thinking of developing countries, for instance, who might be interested in having that type of system for themselves.
It's a question for every panellist.