Madam Chair, the member opposite should know, as WTO negotiations began under his party's mandate, which stagnated, that anything we do must fall within the purview and not be challenged. It would be senseless to close a border by initiating a payment. Certainly those discussion go on. We are working with the pork industry as to how we can do that through existing programming.
In the House of Commons on May 14th, 2009. See this statement in context.