Thank you.
I also hope that the people from the department will be accompanying the minister, because he is still fairly new in the position and alone may not be able to do it.
My first question would be that last year in its May report, entitled “Dispute Settlement in the NAFTA: Fixing an Agreement Under Siege”, the committee unanimously put forward 20 recommendations designed to repair the NAFTA dispute settlement mechanism found in chapter 19 of the agreement. Furthermore, the report argued that it was time for the Canadian government to take a more aggressive stance on the trade dispute file with its American counterparts to ensure that the original intent of chapter 19 is respected. Can you comment further on this report, and whether it has been reviewed by the department? What actions have been taken, if any?