Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank my colleague, first of all, for helping us understand the advantages that Canada has had in our trade agreements, not only in terms of our commercial trade, but also in our service trade. We on this side do understand why we're having these talks about the Pacific Alliance. Clearly, it is part of a global picture in terms of reaching and being able to be a hub into the Pacific Asian countries around the world, for example. It is, in fact, an agreement that would bring a bloc of four countries—with us it would be five—to harmonize many of the things you were just talking about. I'll go to that with either Gord or Nick.
Understanding the crop protection minimum residue levels and getting minimum standards to be acceptable are challenges that we in Canada are dealing with in trade agreements. You talked about almost $4 billion of product being at risk because of an MRL gap. That is a huge issue to get over. How do we establish that? Canada has to be careful not to be the one that sets the rules, but if everybody else sets them differently, then you've automatically put yourself in a position.
Have you as an organization had discussions with commodity groups around the world in terms of establishing an international standard outside of Codex? Can you talk to us a little about where that is, or if it has even started? Have you had any of those discussions?