Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I would just caution that the American electorate tends to be pretty protectionist, and I am not at all convinced that this new batch of Republicans is necessarily any stronger in terms of free trade. Maybe they might have been in other circumstances, but right now I'm not holding out a whole lot of hope that the new batch is going to be any more in favour of free trade than before. However, I couldn't agree more with my colleague that time should be of the essence anyway, so we want to make sure that we take advantage of the opportunity of pushing this through from a Canadian perspective as much as possible.
Mr. Castonguay, could you tell us a little more about this? First of all, is there a double taxation agreement with the United States only? We need to know if an information exchange agreement was concluded along with the trade exchange agreement. Is there a double taxation agreement in place with the United States?