Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to our witnesses. All three of you are offering very substantive testimony and raising very substantive concerns. Hopefully we can consult with you regularly on the trade committee, because you're providing a lot of important information.
I certainly noted the criticism that all three of you had about there being absolutely no cost-benefit analysis at all around this deal. It seemed to have been done on the back of a napkin.
I wanted to address specifically Mr. Peppard's issue on the municipal procurement policies, because Minister Van Loan said on Tuesday, when he appeared before the committee, that municipalities almost all ran broad, wide-open procurement. I think many of us around this table were concerned about that comment, because he didn't offer any facts to back it up.
Mr. Peppard, you're actually saying that many municipalities have a wide variety of conditions around municipal procurement. You mentioned living wage or fair wage policies. Could you comment a bit more on the procurement policies in place that are threatened by this agreement?