Mr. Speaker, I want to make it unequivocally clear that the multilateral agreement among all of the OECD members is not an end in itself. It is a beginning. The next step would be to go to the World Trade Organization and, hopefully, every member of the World Trade Organization will abide by the same rules.
I also want to tell my colleague that our negotiators are not going to a round table with other OECD members to discuss our cultural industry as an open field. There are already protections under the FTA and the NAFTA for our cultural industry. We want to ensure, as a minimum, that what we have in terms of exemptions now under the NAFTA and the free trade agreement will continue when we sign the MAI.
To that extent, what the government is doing, basically, is the absolute minimum in a fair game.
I want to take my colleague's comments today as an endorsement of what the government is doing.