Mr. Chair, as I have said and my colleagues have repeated several times, the short- or medium-term solution is immediate assistance.
As I said earlier, the long-term solution would be to resolve this issue within the framework of the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement, which will be reviewed no later than next year. There needs to be a mechanism in place in case of trade actions, because no one can guarantee that the bad faith shown by an administration will suddenly disappear. Future administrations will still be able to behave the same way, which is why we need to set a real time limit, as we were meant to do from the beginning.
The notion of imposing a time limit on the dispute settlement mechanism between states was raised from the outset. The maximum period discussed was one year. In the end, that changed. It was supposed to be one year, but that excluded the time needed to appoint arbitrators. That is where the Americans found ways to stall and draw things out. This aspect will have to be addressed head-on in the next review.