Well, that's interesting, because I've been at a few of the international meetings. And I actually thought that both Mr. Gauthier and Mr. Stephenson presented well at committee here. It's not quite fair to put all the onus on their shoulders. They absolutely do represent the government with very clear orders. And those clear orders are that we protect supply management and that any decisions about the Canadian Wheat Board--there has never been any doubt about it, we just heard the minister say--will be made by Canadians, not by international negotiations.
You know, we don't establish the text. It's not a matter of intervening to establish the text that's set out. In any set of negotiations, generally your chair brings in an extreme text that I think even you might agree--I would like an answer on this question--that nobody at the table, except maybe a very extreme few, would agree to, because it wouldn't work for the developing countries. It wouldn't, quite frankly, work for most of the so-called developed countries because of the difference of opinion. Every country--every country--has sensitive products.
Do you think any of the countries would agree with the text that's brought down? That's where you start negotiations. No one agrees to that. You begin your negotiations from this extreme point. The chair brings it in. Then they work for several years to whittle away at the excess and get down to something that actually works for everybody.
Do you think any country, let alone Canada, would agree to that opening text? We don't agree to it; we start our negotiations from it.