Mr. Speaker, it was abundantly clear in the last round of the GATT negotiations together with trade discussions since that time that the Government of Canada intends to preserve valuable trading institutions such as the Canadian Wheat Board.
I had the opportunity to discuss the whole issue of state trading enterprises with representatives from 14 different countries in the context of the Cairns group meeting earlier this summer in Cartagena. It was the common consensus of all of the Cairns group countries, most particularly countries like Canada, Australia and New Zealand, but all of the Cairns group, that we have every right to stand up for state trading agencies, and that we will do.