Mr. Chair, I have to interject here because the hon. member is simply incorrect.
Both Canada and the European Union are leaders in the promotion of the 2005 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions. This convention recognizes that cultural goods and services are different from tradable goods, because they have both an economic and a social nature. They convey identities, values and meaning. We are in agreement with the European Union on that. There is no difference in our opinion or the European Union's opinion.
I have to protest that the member's arguments that somehow we are cutting culture out of this simply are not true.