International Trade committee  Honestly, I can't think of anything off the top of my head.

International Trade committee  Arun, thank you. I'm happy to respond. The dispute we have with the United States with respect to TRQ administration applies strictly to the CUSMA agreement, so, no, we have not done any analysis to determine whether or not others would be interested in what the impacts are.

International Trade committee  The CETA TRQ administration is different from the CUSMA one, for sure, yes.

International Trade committee  Certainly the panel has, as you are no doubt aware, pronounced, provided and after that Canada has stated that we will bring ourselves into compliance with the panel report. We have done some internal thinking on that. The minister also mentioned working in close co-operation with the sector, specifically the processing and the producer sector.

International Trade committee  Is it my mike, or is it translation? I can hold the mike closer.

International Trade committee  Madam Chair, I can start and then I might turn to my colleague to see if he has anything further to add. From a trade negotiator's perspective, I always want to have as many options as possible when I am sitting across the table from—

International Trade committee  I'll start again, and then perhaps my colleague will want to add to that. When I approach this question, it's more from a trade negotiator perspective. As a trade negotiator, I like to have all of the tools in my tool box, as it were. I like to have everything at my disposal, even though in the back of my mind I know what I can and cannot do.

International Trade committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. I'll try to respond to the question I think I heard, but if not, I apologize in advance. Yes, concessions were given in CETA, in CPTPP and in CUSMA. As I mentioned earlier, those concessions were given after thorough analysis and a lot of internal debate about whether or not they should be made.

International Trade committee  I will maybe start, and then I'll turn to my colleague from Agriculture Canada to further elaborate. If I understood the question, you want to know other sectors that might come forward and what those sectors might be. Is that what I understood?

International Trade committee  Okay. Thank you for the clarification. As we said, I'm sure most sectors are keeping a close eye. You will have seen on Monday, when a number of industry players came and presented to the committee, that others were watching very closely to see what was going on. Again, we haven't heard for sure who might have an interest.

International Trade committee  Maybe I could start, and then, Aaron, if you would like to add anything, please do. For sure, whoever we're negotiating with watches what's going on in Canada very closely. I know that our counterparts in the United Kingdom watched all of the hearings from last fall all the way through April with great interest.

International Trade committee  Maybe I will ask my colleague from Agriculture Canada to answer.

International Trade committee  I think the U.S. has not applied to join the CPTPP. You are correct that if they were to join, they might have access to both of those opportunities to import, if you will. However, that would be part and parcel of the market access package that they would need to negotiate when they joined CPTPP.

International Trade committee  Would it, in our partners' eyes...? That's a very good question. I think that certainly by elevating one sector over another, you are indicating to trading partners—and, frankly, to the Canadian audience as well—the importance of one sector over another. When you put it in legislation, I can well imagine that other sectors would look to have their interests reflected in legislation as well, whether it's in this department's act or another department's act or in any other way.

International Trade committee  During the consultations, we certainly heard interests from a number of stakeholders that are both offensive and defensive, and not just on the supply management side of things. I haven't heard of any other sectors that would like to be included in legislation, but I think this still is the farthest one down the road, as it were.