Good morning. Thanks very much for being here.
I just have a couple of comments. Further to what my Bloc colleague and my Liberal colleague had touched on, the motion we have.... I'm just simply going to read it.
The Committee calls on the government of Canada to stem the current market disruption, in specific categories, in the Canadian apparel industry, by immediately invoking Article 242 of China's accession protocol to the WTO and putting in place restrictions or safeguards on the growth of specific categories of apparel imports from China.
Some of the information I have here indicates that in 2005 we had a few companies--in fact it was less than 1% of the Canadian apparel industry--that made general requests to the government to undertake these consultations with China with a view, of course, to imposing quotas on imports of Chinese apparel products. They were aware that the United States and the European Union had imposed these kinds of safeguards. And apparently these safeguards have caused some widespread disruption in the EU.
I'm wondering if you would have any insight as to what that disruption would be. Could you give us any information on what that was, if you do know anything, and how that might play out here?