Mr. Chairman, my colleague, the minister of agriculture and his parliamentary secretary who are in the House today, have been working very hard and well with the farming communities across the country precisely to address their preoccupations and do the very best job they can in tough circumstances. It is true that we do not have the deep pockets of Europe or the United States. This is why our top strategy is to negotiate down the domestic subsidies and to negotiate out all of the export subsidies.
The member says that nothing has happened in the last two years. That is not true. We have had mandated negotiations from the earlier rounds in agriculture. That has taken a lot of energy by our people. We understand the problems a lot better. We have spent a lot of time calculating the impact of those subsidies so that when we get a crack at the negotiations we will really know what to target and what to try to eliminate to help our farmers in Canada.