Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm going to share my time with the honourable member, Mr. Menzies.
Thank you, gentlemen, for your comments this morning, it's been very interesting. I think it's important that we do hear from as many people as we can from our country to have an agreement that represents fairly both the labour end and the business side of the agreement.
I wanted to comment a little about your request to have the draft agreements released. I've had the experience...and I think everybody in this room respects labour and the human rights law. We all agree that's very important, as is also the fine balance between the men and women who risk their capital, many of whom put their lives on the line to provide that opportunity of employment.
During the negotiations we've had with the CA4 agreement to date, our government has agreed to release the draft if there's consensus amongst the five parties involved. Being labour lawyers, you've been in negotiations with labour agreements, I would assume, in the past with different companies. I've been on both sides. I've been in unions and in management with unionized companies, and when you're negotiating a deal there has to be consensus, an agreement, amongst all the parties before that draft information can be released. To date the CA4 groups have indicated that they think it's premature to release this information.
My question to you is, from your experience in negotiating, don't you think it would be inappropriate for one country to release the draft unilaterally, since among all parties there's not been a consensus achieved to date?