Thank you.
At the last meeting, Mr. Webber told us about the situation. In fact, for over 50 years, the reciprocity of access to dispute resolution services existed between Canada and the United States. The preferential rights were lost in October 2014. Yet the Canada-U.S. Regulatory Cooperation Council committed in 2011 to creating comparable approaches to protect Canadian and American suppliers of fruits and vegetables against payment defaults.
In light of your experience and your knowledge, how can you explain that, for all these years, no progress has been made to create comparable approaches to protect the producers?