Thank you for being here, minister.
In your comment, you talked about the agreement currently being discussed with the European Union, and I would like to ask you some questions on that subject.
I have a very specific question. I had some research done by the Library of Parliament, which I asked whether, historically, when Canada begins this kind of discussion with a view to free trade agreements, it specifically states in a preliminary text that certain things are excluded. For example, I'm told that, historically, we exclude the supply management system from certain types of agreements.
Unfortunately, we see from the second paragraph in section 3.1 of what's called the Joint Report on the EU-Canada Scoping Exercise that everything is on the table, including supply management. In fact, supply management was not excluded. Was that an oversight? Was that deliberate?
I'd like to hear you say—and no doubt agricultural producers under supply management in both Quebec and Canada would also like to hear you say—whether, as Minister of International Trade, you indeed intend to ensure that supply management is not part of those discussions for the agreement currently being negotiated with the European Union.