As to your question about concerns at the multilateral level, CAFTA is very much focused on the amount of opportunity that will be provided to Canadian agrifood products if we do get more sanity in the international marketplace. We clearly need to see discipline occur with respect to subsidies and with respect to all the trade distortion that goes on with respect to access barriers.
We in CAFTA truly believe that's where we'll get maximum benefit, to see a positive and very ambitious conclusion to this round of negotiations at the WTO. Quite frankly, we're somewhat concerned about the position that Canada is now taking at the WTO with respect to the market access issue. In fact, Canada has become quite isolated. Just three weeks ago, Canada took a very bad turn, we believe, with respect to access issues in that we were very isolated.
We've been cited twice in the agriculture chair's papers, that Canada is alone in trying to stop progress with respect to the access movement, and that's clearly of concern to our organization and of concern to the 91% of agriculture and food producers in this country who are clearly dependent on the international marketplace.
We are an exporting nation. Canada is the fourth largest exporter of agrifood products in the world. Therefore, Canada should not only be participating very fully at the WTO, but in fact should be providing leadership with respect to all three pillars of the WTO: reduction of domestic subsidies; reduction of trade-distorting export competition; as well as improvements in market access.
We do believe there are benefits for our bilateral and regional trade agreements, but it must be very clearly emphasized that it can only be built on a very strong foundation of international trading practices, which must clearly come through and be signalled through the WTO.