Mr. Speaker, this truly takes the cake. It sounds like the minister is not even aware that an agreement was signed by his government in 1995. It is as if he ignores that.
The Americans, for their part, have been prohibiting access to their market since 1999 to foreign cheese sticks and they respect the quotas that they have agreed on, something Canada is not doing.
How does the minister explain that he delivers discretionary import permits to let American cheese imports in Canada, while the Americans refuse to let Canadian cheese cross their border?