Most of our members would definitely appreciate a rules-based order when it comes to trade. You will have a hard time finding a supporter of the WTO within our group. We have been quite disappointed in the WTO in the last 20 years, especially since they welcomed China on board in 2001. It was done with the promise that China would liberalize its economy, but clearly that has not materialized. We don't see China as becoming a market economy any time soon, and a lot of the decisions that have been made by the WTO throughout the years have negatively impacted our own protection of our market here. I'm thinking about particular market situations, for instance, or cross-cumulation decisions that have been made.
That being said, what Canada can do—and what seems to be important for us to protect or at least show the way when it comes to respecting rules and known principles—is to improve our trade remedy system, for instance. Our anti-circumvention legislation needs to be modernized, for one. We need to better align our trade remedy system with the U.S. I think the U.S. has the gold standard in terms of trade remedies, and by following their lead and modelling the tools we have a little bit more, we would send a clear signal that we believe in a fair trading system.
