Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you, Excellency, and the minister and honoured guests.
Like my colleague Dean, I had a chance to travel to your country. I was very impressed with what I saw. I'm glad that we have this modern comprehensive free and fair trade agreement, the strong labour and environmental agreements, and also the additional human rights assessments that have been negotiated.
I come from British Columbia. You alluded to the fact that some of the specific advantages for our province would be for mining and pulp and paper, industrial machinery, and precious metals.
I just want to touch base on what I've been reading and listening to. Specifically, the public sector unions are not supporting this agreement, and we've heard you have extensive foreign investment from other countries, other trade agreements you're working on.
My understanding, Minister Plata, is that I think this is the first time in history that Canadian institutional investors are looking at your country for investment, and some of those Canadian investments are the public sector pension plans. Is that correct?