On CAN-Trade, we are doing a strategic assessment right now. I would say I am, and have been in the past, very positive and supportive of more resources to be put into trade development. That's a combination of International Trade and Foreign Affairs, Export Development Corporation, Canadian Commercial Corporation. We need more boots on the ground and we need more people who understand what the value proposition is to the private sector to have government people providing them with information to open doors for them, to help them identify and execute joint ventures, and all that kind of thing. I'm very supportive of that.
I believe the way we need to approach it, however, is to start with the architecture of our trade agreements. In other words, in the case of China we really do need to make more progress, and we are making good progress on a foreign investment promotion and protection agreement. The architecture needs to be put in place. We're very close to signing a science and technology cooperation agreement with China. Again, we need to create the policy trade investment architecture under which we can then encourage our entrepreneurs and businesses to participate in foreign marketplaces.
The first priority is to focus on the architectural fixes that need to be put in place. We are developing some proposals that will be not dissimilar to CAN-Trade and will be considered by the government going forward. I can assure you that it is something we've got to put our shoulder to.
On the remanufacturers, we have appointed on contract a gentleman by the name of Doug Ketchison. His job is solely to focus on remanufacturer value-added issues and to look at how we can, in the fine-tuning of the agreement going forward, ensure they are treated in the most advantageous way possible. There are complexities, as you perhaps know, because some remanners actually have forest tenures. That creates complications, as you know, because it's the tenure holders who are really the target of this protectionist attack to begin with.
On the matter of deposits, we continue to examine in the context of finalizing the legal detail of an agreement how we might be able to ensure a more rapid payout of deposits than what might otherwise be the case. As you know, if we carry on with litigation it will be years before people see money, or it may be never. We think we can create a basis for an accelerated payment and we're looking at options for doing that.