Thank you, Chair. Thank you to our guests for being here today.
I'll start with Mr. Al-Katib because of the comment he just made, and then I'll go to Mr. Hodgson.
A couple of times, first in your formal comments and then in responding to Mr. Côté's question about the extent to which these free trade agreements are profitable, you came back to the point that what we need is a commercialization framework. You said that could be done agreement by agreement. I guess that depends on what country we're dealing with and what products and services we have that might interest them. I appreciate that focus.
As a broad comment, without trying to sound trite about this, do you generally support the approach we've taken in terms of opening up more markets through the free trade agreements? We've had a pretty aggressive free trade strategy; do you think that makes a lot of sense for your business and for business in Canada?