Thank you, Madam Chair.
I thank the witnesses for their testimony today.
My first question is for Dr. Dufour, through the chair.
Thank you, Dr. Dufour, for your explanation of the illegality of the IRA.
You highlighted three points that I find very interesting. They are the violation of the national treatment principle, the violation of the most favoured nation status under the GATT and the violation of the Subsidies and Countervailing Measures Agreement.
I'm sure that you're familiar with the Canada feed-in tariff case that was before the dispute settlement body. They actually invoked an exception under, I believe, section 8 for the Subsidies and Countervailing Measures Agreement. The exception was that if there's a new industry, that would not be deemed to be a violation of the most favoured nation status under the GATT.
Do you believe that the U.S. would invoke this exception and perhaps even have climate change viewed as a global public good? Because these industries will be new industries, do you think that this would be a viable exception?