Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Since there won't be much time at the conclusion of the meeting and since I don't want to miss my opportunity, I want some assurances that the clerks will produce the necessary documents to allow us to table the motion tomorrow morning. I will be in attendance. Therefore, I'd also like to have the documents pertaining to the motion that we've just adopted. I'm told that won't be a problem. Thank you.
Thank you for your presentations. Right off the top, I want the representatives of the Canadian Sugar Institute to know that I'm well acquainted with this file, having served on the Subcommittee on International Trade. I've even visited the Lantic plant. The Bloc Québécois opposed the agreement with Costa Rica because the government was unwilling to take into consideration our concerns, which we felt were quite relevant. Therefore, I can assure you that I intend to make these concerns known to the committee when it examines this free trade agreement with Central American countries.
I'd now like to turn to Mr. Moreno, since I haven't had as much contact with him as I have had with our friends from the Canadian Sugar Institute. It's no secret that opposition to the free trade agreement with the United States was very intense, as he indicated. To my knowledge, CAFTA passed by a one-vote margin in the U.S. House of Representatives. Mr. Moreno described to us some of the problems CAFTA has created for the agricultural industry.
What kind of problems has CAFTA created for public services? The witness briefly alluded to them in his presentation, but I'd appreciate some more concrete examples. In what way does the free trade agreement between the United States and Central America pose a threat to the continued existence of public services in Salvador?