Ambassador, I understand that the current Conservative government wants us as parliamentarians to ratify a free trade agreement with Panama before we have a tax information exchange agreement in place. Now I understand, if I am correct, that this is the opposite approach to what the U.S. Congress took, which was that they would not ratify a free trade agreement until a tax information exchange agreement was completed. Is that correct? Was that the approach the U.S. Congress took?
On September 27th, 2012. See this statement in context.