Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Welcome to our guests.
I have to say that I'm a little bit perplexed by the testimony up to this point. I actually am going to pick up where Mr. Allen left off. I don't quite understand how we have two witnesses here who are saying to the Canadian government that we should somehow cancel this trade agreement, that we need to take it on the chin, but, by the way, the United States will continue to trade with Jordan because that's okay.
I'm not trying to be cute here, guys. That's what I'm hearing. Quite frankly, that's unacceptable. You can't come to us and tell us we have to change the rules. Under our agreement on labour cooperation, we have put some very strict guidelines in this agreement. This does not apply simply to Jordanian workers; it also applies to migrant workers and migrant labour. It is under the International Labour Organization's international guidelines and, quite frankly, it recognizes that some of the migrant worker regulatory regime in Jordan has been less than perfect, that there have been some abuses and some mistakes made, and that we need to have a more robust system to govern this.
I appreciate--I think we all do--the challenges surrounding labour and human rights, but what I'm not hearing is that your union is willing to take on the Walmarts of the world or the Hanes of the world. You're not willing to do anything about this in the United States, but you say that in Canada we should. That is simply not fair.