Thank you for being here.
I just want to follow up on my colleague's question earlier on. There was a study commissioned by the European Union regarding its sustainability impact assessment on CETA. Basically this study urged both parties to avoid investor-state provisions relating to disputes settlement, because the study found no evidence that they encourage investment flow in and out of the country. Furthermore, the study also concluded that they do contain the risk that legitimate public policies will come under attack. There's evidence on this side, and we have also had to hand out $165 million of taxpayers' money, and now we're on the hook in the ExxonMobil Corporation case in Newfoundland for another $65 million.
How are taxpayers being protected when we're negotiating these investor-state provisions?