Thank you.
We've been told by the government that this affords us permanent access. In fact, one government document says it provides us with permanent access to local contracts. However, when we had public servants here from DFAIT last week, it was confirmed to us that in fact it provides not permanent access but only temporary. There's no permanent access to local government contracts under this agreement.
Furthermore, when we asked the public servants what potential value was provided to Canadian companies in terms of access, they couldn't answer the question. As for what we are losing or giving up in terms of Canadian projects, they couldn't answer.
Ms. George, you've acknowledged as well that you can't calculate that information either. How many of your members as companies would enter into agreements when they didn't know what they were giving up and didn't know what they were getting?