International Trade committee  I think you nailed it on the head. That has been the overwhelming concern. Is that the start of something that's going to roll into something sliding down the hill? It's been strongly supported not only, as you mentioned, in 2005 but all the way up into last October in 2013. What

International Trade committee  If I could speak to that just for a minute, one of the things that you see more and more is the heightened interest in demand by consumers around food safety. There is no system in the world that allows you to regulate, particularly in the case of Canada, the dairy and poultry pr

International Trade committee  Under the organic standards right now Canada does have some fairly good safeguards. They have to meet the CFIA standards on organics. So you're not going to get past the GMO issue with the organic council committee, that continues to be something extremely highlighted. So in trad

International Trade committee  Yes, that tends to be the way that it goes. Canada has been developing their own standards. They take into consideration the EU and somewhat the American standard, but then those Canadian standards have to be met by products coming in. So the government needs to continue to enfor

International Trade committee  Just to clarify, you are asking if the supply management commodities could actually develop and grow to a point where they would be exporting?

International Trade committee  I would say offhand that the way the programs are set up—it's a domestic supply program—you would be counteractive to the intent of those programs if you started to do that. There is no doubt there are some export spinoffs. I heard the earlier discussion about powdered milk in

International Trade committee  Insomuch as other countries have their own sensitivities around these products, you do run into those sorts of problems.

International Trade committee  I take it under advisement, and I wouldn't necessarily say yes.

International Trade committee  Can I comment? I think it's a very good question, and I think that it pertains to some of the conversations that have already gone on—the fact that bilateral trade agreements, I think, are the best way for Canada to move ahead in making trade deals in comparison to what was bein