Let me answer your last question first. I feel that it is impossible to exclude agriculture because that would fundamentally change the outlook and the reality. It would no longer be the World Trade Organization, just an accord between some developed countries. You cannot talk about world trade without talking about agriculture. Of course, we can deal with agriculture differently from the rest. We can add the dimension of development to the dimension of trade, and we must. To some extent, that was forgotten during the Doha negotiations.
At the outset, the intent was for it to be a development round. Perhaps that did not come up at the negotiating table enough. Most Parliaments share that view to some extent. But excluding agriculture could not be an option.
I am no more an expert than you; I am speaking on behalf of the International Trade Committee, nothing else. It was not you who created the problems in agriculture that caused the Doha Round to fail, nor was it us. Basically, it was the United States and India.
The WTO has managed to get through some very difficult situations. But in July, the house collapsed. You can read it in two ways; maybe it collapsed, maybe they just stopped building it. I do not know. Whatever the case, everyone shut up shop then, just as they were very close to coming to an agreement that would have had a specific impact on agriculture.
With all the information that we have received, I would not be as pessimistic as you about Canadian interests. The problem was mostly between India and the United States. If they had been able to solve the problem of basic protection for Indian companies, they might have come up against another problem, cotton. I do not know exactly what would have happened with American cotton because they never got the opportunity to discuss it.
But, overall, I do not think that we can be too negative about the agricultural negotiations at the Doha Round. Some agreements have already been reached. If we can get back to negotiating with resolve, as some of us would like, everything that has been negotiated so far should be maintained. They are very positive fundamentals.