Well, that's always the position of the Canadian Association of Labour Lawyers. Is there an adequate model? In short, no.
I pointed to the NAFTA itself as containing a very embryonic kind of labour right, which is an anti-replacement worker provision that would allow a country to prevent the entry of employees who are coming over to work to replace workers who are engaged in a labour dispute, whether that be a strike or a lockout. The prison labour article in GATT has actually been incorporated in NAFTA as well, so there's another provision in NAFTA--article 2101, I think it is--that deals with articles made by prison labour and allows an exception to the general rules. So there's a beginning in these agreements themselves, as opposed to in the side agreements, but frankly, that is being pursued around the globe.
The United States has a generalized preference system that has some acknowledgment of labour rights, but there isn't a substantive code to which we in labour organizations and our representatives would all point and say that's the model we need to follow. We would say to you that Canada can take the lead on this, because we have, in my view, an international reputation for promoting human rights around the world.