Thank you very much, Chair.
Thank you very much, guests.
As the chair mentioned, we came back from Colombia. I have learned a great deal from that trip. It is a country full of extreme contradictions. You have tremendous growth, but extreme poverty. You have a very popular president, but a Congress that's under investigation--up to 30 members, I believe. You have essentially a very mature democracy, but a country that is dealing with a very long internal conflict. It was incredible, the sharp differences we saw and experienced first-hand.
Our goal was a very clear-cut mandate to look at human rights issues and environmental aspects, not so much on the access to market and free trade, but on some of those other issues that became a cause of concern for many Canadians.
Mr. Wright, could you comment and elaborate on that particular set of concerns, and the one the chair raised, in terms of what initiatives your company has taken to address and deal with some of those, above and beyond the traditional free trade agreement with respect to market access, the reduction of tariffs, and so forth? I'm speaking specifically about corporate social responsibility and initiatives you are taking to help deal with the human rights issues and environmental concerns that are being brought forth to our committee.