Yes, exactly.
With the stakes changing dramatically, we would like to receive financial compensation, as the Prime Minister pointed out when the agreement in principle was signed. Even before everything goes into effect, whether in January 2015 or in January 2016 as some authorities prefer, we would like the government to act quickly by providing cheese factories with a budget envelope, as it did in last week's budget when it set aside $500 million for the automobile sector in anticipation of an agreement with South Korea.
It hurts a little to see that the automobile sector is being protected from a significant potential impact when the same could have been done for the dairy and cheese sectors in Canada. Before the agreement even goes into effect, it would be only fair for the government to help businesses in the sector to improve their bases in order to be better prepared for what is coming.
Two things are clear. First, foreign companies will take over 30% of the market for fine cheeses from Quebec and Canada. That is not an insignificant amount. It is huge. Second, as I said earlier, their prices will be significantly lower than ours, because of the subsidies those companies receive. For those reasons, the government must respond quickly before the agreement goes into effect.