Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Excellency, for your comments around income inequality. My colleague Mr. Allison was quite right to point out the absurdity of having so-called average incomes going up when we know that for 80% of Canadian families they've actually fallen. That's what average income rates actually do: 1,000 people lose half their income and a billionaire makes another billion, and it appears that all incomes have skyrocketed. We know it's not the case, so I appreciated your comments about income inequality and making sure that the government analyzes that and understands what is actually happening.
I have three questions for you. The first is around value-added exports. We've recently had the government sign a softwood lumber deal that has led to sending raw logs across our border with a lot of job losses. It would be interesting to see what the Chilean government has put into place to ensure that the exports that leave Chile are actually value-added and actually contribute to the creation of jobs.
Second, you mentioned a long list of trade agreements that have been signed. Do those agreements, the most recent ones, include social, environmental, and labour components within them to ensure that the living standards of Chilean citizens are raised, as well as those of their trading partners?
Finally, you have a very diverse trading regime: no country has more than 13.5% of exports. In Canada we are extremely vulnerable: 86% of our exports go to one country. What does the Chilean government do to ensure there is a wide diversity, so you're not dependent on one market?