Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Welcome to our witnesses here today.
Ms. McClenaghan, you had a fair amount to say in a short period of time, and I had a little bit of difficulty following it all. In your comments you went into environmental measures and how we should have subnational treatment and a strong system of environmental protection. I think all of us at the table here agree with that.
Then you went on to some discussion about the precautionary principle. What I understand you're advocating for is to have some environmental policies actually apply to labour regulations and investment regulations, and to always have that environmental principle. You're against investor-state provisions, but you're asking for essentially the same thing that investor-state provisions have. So you're looking at individual requirements under the law and saying there should always be a protection there for the environment. What the investor-state provisions provide for, quite frankly, is protection for the investor and for that state; they don't preclude the other country from contesting that and going to court. If they are in disagreement, they're not forced to apply those laws, but they are forced to provide compensation.
Can you explain a little bit more the difference between these two issues?