I think those things need to be in the agreement. I think free trade agreements, especially those that Canada has negotiated for a long time, often include separate chapters—one on the environment and another on labour, for example—with a series of good intentions. However, they are in no way binding.
In my opinion, when reviewing free trade agreements, it's very important to mention all the progressive aspects in the text of the agreement so that there are concrete applications. I think the Canada-Ukraine agreement has made some progress in terms of integrating environmental concerns. This proves that Canada has the opportunity to do so. That said, I think we need to go even further when renegotiating free trade agreements.
In my opinion, all the free trade agreements negotiated by Canada during the great years of free trade were liberalization agreements in which environmental and human rights considerations were secondary to the rights granted to businesses.
Right now, where we are, we have the opportunity to transform things and include much more important elements in free trade agreements.