Thank you, Mr. Chair, and congratulations. Welcome back, everyone.
Without duplicating the previous comments, I just wanted to make a comment. I've been on the committee for I guess four years. We did study the Gulf Cooperation Council, the GCC, and we did visit Riyadh, Yemen--Yemen is outside of it--Abu Dhabi, and Dubai, so there was some work done about three and a half years ago by the committee. The report was presented, so some of that can be brought back if we want to go there.
I think Canada-U.S. is a good starting or jumping-off point. Mr. Brison and Mr. Trost are both in the Canada-U.S. interparliamentary association. Something we try to do is to bring some of the senators and congressmen to Alberta, to Fort McMurray, and I think it would be a good idea to come to Saskatchewan too. So that's something we could work on in conjunction with the Canada-U.S. committee.
There is another aspect of Asia. I was in Taiwan in January, and they're working with China on an economic cooperation framework agreement, so there are some strong ties between the two of those countries. They're expanding trade with the U.S., and Australia is really aggressive with their trade agreement, so we need to expand there. I think that's where we should focus after Canada-U.S. The Canada-EU agreement would be historic in the sense that this committee could work together towards that and pull it off. The Canada-U.S. NAFTA agreement has proven to be a success for Canadians for a number of years. I think we're going in the right direction.
I have just one question, Mr. Chair. Do you have any idea regarding the Colombia free trade agreement and what the timeline for it would be from its introduction in the House to the time it would come to the committee?