International Trade committee  In the context of the negotiations, the objective is to improve the existing trade rules. What would go before dispute settlement would be based on the existing trade rules. The negotiations themselves are there to improve the rules, so in the Cairns group framework there is a

International Trade committee  There are current rules on trade-distorting agricultural support and there are WTO dispute settlement processes with respect to them. There is one involving China at the moment. Some WTO members have questioned the way China notified its trade-distorting domestic support, so the

International Trade committee  Canada was a third party in that process, but it was not initiated by Canada.

International Trade committee  I think it is ongoing, but I will need to verify.

International Trade committee  Thank you. In the context of the agriculture negotiations, Canada has been an active participant from the beginning of the Doha round in 2001. Disciplining trade and production-distorting agricultural subsidies is one of Canada's priorities. To that effect we have provided signi