Thank you, Mr. Chair.
The study is actually on Canada-U.S. trade relations, so I'll have a couple of questions on Buy American and a couple of other questions related to Canada-U.S. trade relations, just to flag that in advance.
Thank you, Mr. Minister, for coming forward.
We've heard from witnesses. One of the witnesses, Carl Grenier, who is a trade expert, as you well know, stated that the Buy American agreement is only the second-worst agreement that Canada has ever signed; the first one was softwood lumber.
I think we were all surprised around the table, Mr. Minister, when members of your department came forward and we asked them the question Mr. Brison referenced earlier about evaluations, estimates, and impact analysis. Apparently nothing had been done to actually show the impacts of this agreement, as far as where we would gain and where we would lose. It all seemed to have been done on the back of a napkin.
So my question to you today--a few weeks later--is have you done your due diligence? Can you provide any impact analysis reports or estimates to the committee? Is there anything that shows what the government, in a leadership role--and you're absolutely right that the federal government has a leadership role in this regard--has done to show what the impacts are of this agreement?