Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'd also like to thank the witnesses for being here today.
I'll be sharing some of my time with Mr. Lemieux.
I know you suggested that the free trade agreements we should probably pursue are those with Colombia and Peru, because of what they've done with the U.S. Our briefing notes talk about trying to establish a political and economic bloc in South America. It could be a challenge to do that anywhere. Obviously there are issues of politics, as you've been discussing, etc.
A conference in 2005 talked about trying to get integrated and get started. My question to you is simply, have some of those steps taken place? Have they started to move in that direction? I know there was some talk about infrastructure projects that would make some sense. That would really be the first question. Has that infrastructure begun?
For my second question, obviously it's going to be a difficult, but how do you see this process unfolding?