They are very hard to see. As I was saying earlier, the communities we work with had functional local economies. They produced foodstuffs; they sold them at the local market, and on the national market. As regards a free trade agreement, first, we know that the farmers market in the countries of the South—this isn't just the case in Colombia—are inundated by foodstuffs from the North. Peasants can no longer sell their inventory into the local market. They're stifling their economy. That's not counting the fact that their lands have been confiscated in order to implement agri-industrial projects such as the African palm project. This palm is intended for export. Incidentally, the palm is intended for European and North American markets in the form of biofuel.
These peasants are being turned into casual plantation workers. In fact, I should even call it a new form of slavery. Workers on the plantations don't even earn wages. In exchange for their work, they receive chits that enable them to get their foodstuffs from the stores that belong to the same entrepreneurs, that is to the palm companies. We're going back to colonization. This is a new form of slavery. This is how development projects are implemented in Colombia. We don't believe that a free trade agreement between Canada and Colombia would improve the situation. I really don't see how that would be possible.