I hope you'll have time to get to the IP and the patent rights.
I want to come back to what Mr. Masse talked about earlier. You said that to adapt, transition periods are necessary. One of the things I'm concerned about is the supply management industries and where they might end up after these negotiations. I'm probably going to have a little disagreement with Mr. Keddy. But at a meeting a number of us were at this week, Ambassador Brinkmann of the EU said they needed something on dairy, implying that they need it for all of their 27 member states. To his credit, he said that they don't need supply management to be abolished. But he also said that they needed bigger access, that the quota access into Canada has remained low for many years. The government continues to say that it's zero-zero. We know it's not going to be zero-zero, but I'd like them to be at least honest with the industry, which we don't seem to be able to get.
On your position on transition periods, we know that the government, in the Conservative Party policy statement of February 4, 2004, said that a Conservative government “will ensure that any agreement which impacts supply management gives our producers guaranteed access to foreign markets and that there will be a significant transition period in any move towards a market-driven environment”.
I know the chamber is not always a friend of supply management, but is that what you're talking about with the transition period? Just what do you mean?