Annex IX to Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 of 22 October 2007 establishing a common organisation of agricultural markets and on specific provisions for certain agricultural products (the ‘single CMO’ Regulation) sets down the national milk quotas for the seven 12-month periods commencing on 1 April 2008 within the milk quota system for production limitation.

We have a system that requires border control, first of quotas, then of quota-free tariff lines, and we have to maintain that system because it is our model of agricultural development.

The united rural landowners of Canada demand: the inclusion of property rights in Canada's Constitution; protection from subsidized foreign commodities destroying our farm incomes; a stop to the theft of property through deceptive and false environmental regulations; an open border for our cattle; the protection of quota value from arbitrary government policy; an end to government attacks on the rural economy; the reduction of excessive and intrusive legislation and regulations; the removal of all corrupt federal politicians; and the dissolution of this dictatorial Parliament.

The quotas for Ozone Depleting Substances under the Montreal Protocol [9], the fish catch quotas under the Common Fisheries Policy [10], and the milk quotas under the Common Agricultural Policy [11] are all practical examples of allowances with some degree of transferability.

Under this agreement, Canada submitted to GATT, on December 15, 1993, the list of tariffs which will replace the present quotas.

The recent GATT talks will have a major impact on the entire agricultural sector in Quebec and Ontario, including the supply management system.