Mr. Chair, let me try to reiterate some of the things I have said in response to this issue, particularly in terms of dealing with other countries.
One of the things I said clearly in dealing with countries like Australia and New Zealand, et cetera, was, look, on the one hand you cannot take action against us when we try to export; you cannot take action against us when we try to control our borders to protect our supply management industry, and do not expect that you will get a reaction from Canada, because you know what? You will. If you attack our producers, if you attack their opportunity to have a livelihood, then we will respond.
Clearly what I said, and I will reiterate, is that we are determined to make sure we get a WTO result that achieves those objectives in terms of domestic supports, in terms of export subsidies and market access, but we are also determined to do it in a way that preserves the ability of our producers to choose to market their products using their own domestic choices, which means protecting supply management.
I will use the set of tools that allow me the best opportunity to do that. To me, the primary way of doing that is to achieve the results we want in terms of the WTO negotiations. If we are unable to do that, then we are going to have to take a look at what other actions we can take, and I have made it clear that we have not ruled out that an article XXVIII action is one of those.