Whenever we start discussing these types of provisions, it's clear that we need to find the right kind of balance between the rights of government to regulate.... We don't want to interfere with that. We certainly don't want to affect anything related to public services or our ability to deliver and maintain public services. It's a matter of ensuring that we can keep that provision contained where it should be contained, which is with respect to investors who may have felt they had received some unfair treatment along the way.
In the chapter on investment protection, we're going to try to ensure that it's clearer than it has been before where that line is between the government's rights and an investor's rights to challenge some of the provisions. It's a matter of getting that balance right, because we do want to encourage investment. We want to assure investors that their investments will not be subject to unpredictability or to practices that might be highly questioned. At the same time, we want to ensure that, as a government and as Canada, we can do what we need to do to follow our policy.