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Ils ont mis sur pied des programmes pour l'exportation du malt, ils s'attaquent à notre commission du blé, que certains d'entre nous ne soutiennent pas, mais ne pensent pas non plus qu'ils ont le droit d'y toucher—si quelqu'un y touche, ce sera nous—et nous, nous restons les bras croisés.
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Mr. David Anderson: New Zealand is a small player as well, Mr. McAlpine, but they're willing to challenge us on the things where they feel we are in contravention. We sit and wait. The United States in many areas, it seems to me, has to be crossing over those programs. There have to be places where we can go in and say, you're subsidizing your producers, we're not doing that in our country, we expect you to stop that immediately. We're doing nothing. They've launched programs on malt exports, they're going after the wheat board, which some of us don't support, but don't think it's their place to change--we'll change it ourselves--but we sit and do nothing. I think it's time to get a lot more aggressive in these areas. Supply management is one of those sectors where we need to look at other countries, their dairy industries, and what they're doing. We have people here from Finance and Foreign Affairs and International Trade. I'd like to hear from them. I'm confident they have problems in their programs, and we can't find them. If we go to WTO, we're going to be there for years, the way the negotiations are going right now.
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