When we deal with potential free trade agreements, the committee asks questions as to how people generally view the negotiations, which industry will benefit and which industry might potentially be negatively impacted. The answers we get are that it is difficult to anticipate since we do not know what the precise terms of the agreement will be.
In this case, the agreement was signed in January. Did your group, or did other organizations, start to make assessments of the quality and the global value of the negotiated terms as well as of the impact they might have on the Canadian economy?