Agriculture committee  No.

Agriculture committee  I will try to explain a little bit more how things started to come in and how the borders sort of loosened up. In 1994, at the conclusion of the last round of WTO negotiations, there were tariff lines established. In somebody's wisdom, not all of our products that existed at that time were caught under those tariff lines.

Agriculture committee  Gladly. I don't believe the supply-managed commodities are holding anything up at the negotiations. Of course the House motion in November of 2005 has sort of put a handcuff on our agricultural negotiator, Steve Verheul. The bottom line is zero tariff reductions and zero increase in the TRQs.

Agriculture committee  No. From my perspective, of course it's not. On the one hand, the government says they do support supply management, and they have actually shown that through actions--the implementation of article 28, the creation of compositional standards for cheese. On the other hand, well, they're going to sign a deal whatever it is, and they're not going to be part of the negotiations to create that deal.

Agriculture committee  Bonjour, tout le monde. Thank you for allowing me to present to this committee, which is doing such important work for the agriculture sector in Canada. My name is David Murray. My wife Annamarie and I operate a dairy farm just west of here, near Mitchell. I also sit on the board of directors of the Dairy Farmers of Ontario, representing the producers of Huron and Perth counties, 600 of the 4,600 dairy producers in Ontario.