Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, once again, for your presentation. It's most interesting.
I'm going to go back.
I caution you not to believe the Americans, that they “need” subsidies. The Europeans will say they need subsidies, and every farmer will say they need subsidies. If we could get back to the marketplace's actually providing the income to farmers, they wouldn't need any subsidies. But that's a discussion for another day, and I agree exactly. Don't believe every word you hear from our American friends.
Going back to some of the comments made—I'm not sure whether by Glen or Gilles—on the concern about how we reposition Canada as a leader in multilateral negotiations, let me just elaborate a little bit. I'm going to put this into one question.
You also talked about the hindrance to being able to add value to agricultural products: the regulatory barriers involved in it, the regulations that inhibit us. I'll throw out one. Of course, the Canadian Wheat Board inhibits western Canadian farmers from being able to access the real-world price.
What do we have to gauge that? How do we analyze it?
Continuing with the regulatory process, we have all of these sectors in Canadian government: Stats Canada; Trade Canada keeps its own numbers; Ag Canada has tremendous resources of statistics; DFAIT has numbers; Industry Canada; Export Development Canada has a statistical branch, and they collect numbers. Do these people talk to each other? Do they share these numbers? You have talked about regulatory process and how it impedes our ability to trade. How do we get all of those people to talk to each other so that we're not duplicating? What are the indicators? Where do we get them from?