We think the results have shown that the free trade agreement with Canada is one of the best that Chile has signed. That is our position. We want to increase it, but we don't regret this step.
To your question, Mr. Julian, the first thing is value-added exports. This is the most important thing today. It is the first challenge that we have. We don't want to be a country that exports on the poverty of the people. We want to be a country that exports with our knowledge, our technology. That is our target. For this reason, we ensure the social and labour aspects of our exports, and we demand that the other countries have a labour approach like the one we have. For instance, in Canada what you have is better than ours, but we are very worried about that point.
We have always been very aware that our exports must be balanced for the markets in the world. For instance, in the Asian crisis, we defended our economy because we have many different markets. For this reason, Chile, as a little country, not only had great interest in the Doha negotiation, we also organized our own defence of our economy in the event of instability in the world economy, especially in terms of problems in the international financial market. That is very important because we are the first country where it is not possible that financial investors can come to Chile only to turn profit. They have to stay and put the money in for a period of time. They can not take the money immediately from the country. You know what happens when there are many international forums at play in the world that look for profit by profiting from others.
We will defend our economy from this type of financial institution. Normally we look at different areas of the world because we want to always balance our exports in the world, and not only in one or two global regions. That's my answer.
Value-added export is, for us, a first priority. We have to change. We have to move more quickly in this respect, with more research and development. We are spending more money in this government than the government before on this program.