I'm going to wrap this up, Mr. Chairman. With respect to our witnesses, I don't think this is going to take a lot of discussion, but I will speak on a couple of points made in the motion.
First, I was at the same meeting Mr. Easter was at, at the French embassy. There were no concessions made on dairy and the European Union. As a matter of fact, the more the opposition talk about this, the more harmful I believe it is to the supply-managed industry.
You can read Peter O'Neil's article in the paper this morning on supply management.
We continue to have no support for supply management coming from the official opposition and from the Liberal Party of Canada. They continue to ask questions about it, which continues to fuel the media about this debate.
Our position has been clear on the Trans-Pacific Partnership; the scoping finally came out on the 12th. It's an important venue for Canada. We're a Pacific Rim country. We should be part of any aggressive free trade agreement that goes on there.
For the first time we saw the real give and take in the parameters of the agreement. We realize that we can meet the conditions of the agreement, and probably exceed them, and that includes protection of supply management.
So let's vote on this and move on.