I don't represent the poultry industry. I represent Canada's agriculture exporters, so by definition, the supply management industries aren't in my membership.
I'm not sure what the previous witness was referring to. I will say that in the past there has been a tendency in trade agreements to exclude our supply-managed commodities from negotiations. I would say, though, that going forward—and certainly we've seen it in the context of the Canada-EU negotiations—the federal government has adopted a different approach, which is to have no exclusions from its negotiating mandate, and we would see that as a very favourable development.
I don't think that means for a second that the federal government is going to negotiate away our dairy or poultry sectors, but it certainly allows.... To Bob's point, our standing in international trading circles has been eroding for years. We need to get on with closing some trade agreements. Although the government has had many trade agreements since the NAFTA, the trade agreements we have so far represent all of 2% of our agriculture trade. The trade agreements we're currently looking at, CETA, TPP, Japan, are 70% of our agriculture trade. It's the future we're looking toward in trade, and we need to get on with closing these trade deals.
If we can signal to other countries that we are open for trade and we are willing to sit and negotiate, then I think that can't help but benefit us in the long term.