Thank you for the question.
We have not done such a study or carried out a study.
The interesting thing about Colombia is that there are groups in Colombia that are independent, strong organizations and have the capacity to do this work.
Colombia is still developing, but the fact remains that a good number of organizations in the country are capable of doing that kind of study, and are doing them.
You have the ability within Colombia to have these things done.
In terms of the first part, an independent organization to assess human rights and to assess the status of labour, you have two very good bodies already functioning in Colombia that do this: the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the OAS human rights mission.
We had the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Ottawa about a year and a half ago, I think. It was not the current one, Christian Salazar, but his predecessor. He was visiting DFAIT and giving a talk in town. He was asked point blank, both at DFAIT--by me, while walking from DFAIT to his hotel--and by Embassy magazine, if he supported the free trade agreement with Colombia or if he saw any reason why it shouldn't be supported. He said on each occasion that there is no reason why the agreement shouldn't be supported and that we should go ahead and sign it. He said that there is nothing that would prevent us from signing it.
I think that if an independent, credible organization, involved daily with staff throughout the country examining human rights, looking at the data, working on issues in the courts, feels that there's no reason.... There's your independent body. To my mind, if the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights says it's okay, and the OAS concurs with that, there are your two independent bodies. If you want to do something to follow up, perhaps there could be an investigation of what they've done.
In terms of a study, no, we have not done a study. We are not financed to work on Colombia. We do not have money to work on Colombia. Our engagement in Colombia comes through other things we do, and we take advantage of other business to be in Colombia, to talk to people, and to bring up the issue at seminars and so on.