Thank you, witnesses, for being here this morning. It's great to talk to you. It's always good to have debate with people who look at things in a different light. It's always interesting to try to understand where they're coming from. I try to take a broad approach in how I look at things.
Mr. Duncan, you talked about the difference between multilateral and bilateral trade agreements.
I come from the agriculture sector. I come from Saskatchewan. One of the problems we've had with multilateral agreements, of course, has been the supply management sector and how, as soon as we enter any multilateral agreement, that always comes onto the table; whereas in the bilateral agreements that we've been doing around the world with Minister Ritz and Minister Fast, we've actually been able to get great market access for our beef sector, great market access for our canola, for our grains and oilseed producers, without doing any type of compromise on our supply management sector.
How can you square that round peg in such a way to say that we shouldn't do bilaterals when in fact, if we had not done bilaterals, we would not have gained that market access for the canola or beef sectors, and would have actually had a situation where the Americans would be beating us to those markets?