Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Good afternoon to everyone.
Mr. Stephenson, in your statement you said that the Canada-Jordan Free Trade Agreement addressed the concerns of Canadian exporters, and that it will level the playing field with their competitors from other countries, who have already signed free trade agreements with Jordan, such as the United States and the European Union. However, when we are sometimes presented with free trade agreement undertakings, we are told that, since the United States or the European Union still have not signed a free trade agreement with the country in question, we must quickly position ourselves because, when one country trades with another, they tend to keep the same suppliers, and so on.
Don't you think that this is a little contradictory?