International Trade committee  I have three remarks. First of all, you asked how we can finance or manage social policy. I think you can manage social policy if you have a successful economy. As a social democrat, I would say our free trade policy, our open markets, our openness to the world make up one of the bases for our successful economy.

International Trade committee  No, no, okay; but in Switzerland we have a huge budget deficit. In Canada you don't have one, so you have to have quite a successful economy. I think both of our economies could be even more successful if we had a good and fair and long-standing relationship, especially on the economy.

International Trade committee  In Switzerland we have no fishery problem because we don't fish a lot. When it comes to agriculture we have a problem because we also have a lot of subsidies. But our government shares the opinion of many of us that we should start to negotiate with the European Free Trade Agreement on agriculture.

International Trade committee  I have just a short comment on that. The question of joining the European Union is very controversial in all of our countries. A lot of us are also in favour of joining the European Union, for instance myself, but there is simply no majority within our population. So we have something in common.