I'd like to make something clear to the committee.
Mr. Berthold, we already agreed that we would go through the subcommittee. Less than two weeks ago, we reached a consensus on the committee's agenda. Even though the issue is making headlines today, the Minister of International Trade's commitment to engage in talks with the TPP's 11 members is nothing new. It wasn't something that was all of a sudden.
If you wanted the committee to deal with this issue, perhaps you should have proposed the idea at the subcommittee's last meeting. That didn't happen, however. Since we had already come to an agreement on the agenda for the study, we aren't going to abandon the timetable all because this issue happened to feature in today's headlines. That's all we have to say on the matter.
Thank you.