Thank you very much for your frank and direct comments as to the issues that concern you. Certainly, we'll see to it that the issues you've raised get back to the minister directly, because they are significant; they are important.
I'm happy to hear that reciprocity doesn't happen overnight. There is some due diligence that needs to be done and some correspondence back and forth, which I understand is happening.
One of the thoughts I had is that of course many of the issues that involve visas between EU members may not have the same difficulties or implications that may be experienced by Canada, given the dynamics of various issues, perhaps the one raised by Mr. Telegdi.
As I understand it now, there is no process, when you decide which country is on or off, for involving a country like Canada--with any of the particular or peculiar issues it may have--in that decision-making process. That's one thought that came to my mind, that there's no mechanism in place to look at some issues that may be legitimate to one country but might not be of concern to other members.
The second part of it is there was no simultaneous process for another country to be looking at visa exemptions while you're looking at the particular country coming into the EU or not. I suppose you could say there are some benchmarks or certain conditions that need to be met.
Maybe there is a process that could be beneficial to both, if one were to use it side by side as you're going through that, as opposed to.... Essentially, what you're saying is if we've decided, with issues relevant to the EU, to admit the country and not require a visa, then automatically that should apply across. But some of the concerns we may have here may not be the same concerns you have there when you're making that decision. Maybe there's some room for looking at those kinds of issues.
Are there any comments on that?