Thank you, Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Mulroney, for joining us. I think you will agree that we have a very complex task in front of us, dealing with the Canada-China relationship as a whole, and I don't think anyone could disagree with you that we have to be smart when we're dealing with international relations, particularly with a country as complex as China.
We're trying to put all the pieces together, I guess, and it's pretty clear that we need to have a new relationship with China. The old one is still kind of reaching out to us, though, and I want to draw your attention to something that may prevent us from being as independent as we'd like to be, which is an agreement that was negotiated, I think, while you were the ambassador to China. I think it has a couple of names, but it mostly goes under Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement, which was decried as being one-sided towards China. That binds us for over 31 years and is a version of chapter 11. It is one-sided towards China, and it was negotiated in secret, with no consultation. I think there was one hour of discussion in Parliament.
How are we going to be constrained by that in the future, when we're talking about heavy investment by China, particularly in mining and western Canada energy projects?