Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I'd like to thank the department officials for coming before us here in committee and providing us with their opening remarks. Again, I thank you for your cooperation in the past. You've been very accessible when we've had questions and you've helped us to understand the agreement in a fair amount of detail. We appreciate that very much.
In the past, we have talked about this in committee and in private, and this particular debate around EFTA has been going on for quite some time, prior to my coming to the House of Commons in 2004.
My first question has to do with--and you mentioned in your presentation--the fact that this agreement allows better access. But we also recognize that this is a generation one agreement, where it's fairly limited. In my opinion, with these mature and developed countries that we are dealing with under CEFTA, there's a lot to be gained through the service side of it as well.
My question to you is, how much do we lose from not engaging the service component, and have we done any type of economic assessments or analysis to identify what opportunities have been lost because this is a generation one type of agreement?