Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to our witnesses.
I'll be really quick. I know this has been about 10 years in the works, so it's good to see it finally coming to a conclusion.
One of the things I wanted to see is what the honourable member Mr. Bains alluded to, having an even playing field with our competitors who have an agreement. Right now, the U.S. does not have an agreement with EFTA; is that correct? So we'll have a foot in the door before them, which I think is very positive, this being the first free trade agreement with transcontinental European countries. This is very encouraging.
What I'd like to know from Switzerland concerns some of the Swiss companies. Now that you have announced this EFTA agreement, have you had some additional companies coming to you looking to do business with Canada?