I'll let my colleague chime in after I make a couple of comments, if he wishes.
First of all, I would invite all members of the committee to visit us here and land at the airport that was built by the Canadian company Aecon, which is also protected by an investment agreement and where there has been a dispute.
Most importantly, the Government of Ecuador wants ISDS as part of this agreement, and I think it has the capacity to negotiate hard for adequate protections, as my colleagues have mentioned before, against changes in legislation in the future. It feels it is not competitive with other countries in the region as a destination for investment, and it would like this in there.
Although the ISDS is not currently part of the framework here, despite what other witnesses have testified to in past sessions, each project here is protected by an investment protection agreement that is negotiated separately. Even without ISDS, companies will be looking for bilateral investment protection agreements, because, as I mentioned, they're making huge investments here.
With the Las Naves project that was mentioned, which is $282 million over the next two years, the investors are looking for some sort of protection, particularly against arbitrary changes that would put their investments in peril.
Our government is interested in protecting Canadian investors. I think this is something that will need to be discussed between the two sides in the upcoming negotiations. Both parliaments will have an opportunity to ratify the agreements.