Thank you very much.
Ms. MacEwen, I want to circle back to something you mentioned in your opening remarks when you talked about not just trade policy, but social policy.
We've heard often at this committee about the extent to which certain Canadian businesses and producers are frustrated by some of the restrictions on getting into the European market, even under CETA. We see that in a context where the Canadian government has often been willing to make the kinds of sacrifices they're asking of their trading partners and that their trading partners don't seem willing to make.
Canada has made significant concessions on its supply management system, for instance, even though that puts a lot of strain on supply-managed producers. They've had to suck it up and find a way because the government hasn't had their backs. We expected our trade partners to reciprocate on that, but they don't. In Canada, Liberal and Conservative governments have been mystified by this, and a number of our businesses are mystified by this.
In fact, whereas the conversation here—and I've certainly seen this at the trade committee—is really about economic policy and a belief that at the end of the day trade policy is for the people who have something to trade, many of our trading partners recognize that trade policy is also social policy, and that trade policy decisions have social consequences, not just economic consequences.
I wonder if you could speak a bit to that issue for the benefit of the committee and any Canadians who might be listening. I think this continues to be an ongoing problem in the discussion about trade here in Canada, in that we don't have many political parties—certainly not the two that have governed this country—that appreciate the social dimensions of trade policy. Maybe you could provide us just a few reflections on that for the next two minutes or so.
Then, with the time I have left, I'd like to ask Mr. Chartrand a question.