Thank you very much for your question.
First of all, I don't purport to be an expert on the human rights situation in Colombia.You have experts before your committee who can talk to you on that. So I'll concentrate on the human rights impact assessment process.
You are right, we are at the forefront of a new process here in Canada, and these models are being developed globally. There is, as I said, an existing corpus of human rights impact assessment data to draw upon in terms of good practice for how this should be done, and that's not just a human rights impact assessment of trade agreements, of which there are few, but human rights assessments more generally. I've been researching a number of different models in a number of different areas, and there are core principles that come out of those impact assessment methodologies. Independence, which you've touched upon, is one of them. The others I set out briefly in the paper that you have, and I can go into those in more detail.
My concern is that when one adopts terminology like human rights impact assessment, one also adopts, and rightly so, the baggage of that terminology, so that there should be a whole range of recognized procedures to go with that. My worry about the current proposal as it stands—and as I say, there is not enough detail there to judge it in full—is that it may not have the rigour of what I would say is existing good practice in this field. So when we talk about rules-based trading, we need to be able to assess through human rights methodology the impacts of those rules on affected persons. That's what this form of impact assessment purports to do. My worry is that.... Sorry, I'll stop there.