Canadian companies and service providers, I think we all know, can be world leaders with respect to financial services, engineering, mining, petroleum extractive services, construction, capital projects and environmental services—those are some of the areas in which Canadian companies can be particularly competitive. Canada's trade negotiators are mindful of those strengths, certainly, when we negotiate our trade agreements.
Specifically with respect to this FTA, what we were able to achieve is to move Panama beyond the commitments it has already made to all of the members of the WTO, through its WTO commitments, and take additional commitments with respect to Canada in areas such as mining services, energy services, environmental services, and professional services, including engineering, architecture, legal, and information technology.
Also with respect to financial services, basically in that area and in the other areas that I just mentioned, we once again achieved parity with what the United States had negotiated with Panama. So we're quite satisfied again that we have opened the door for those potentially world-leading Canadian companies to continue and to expand their businesses in Panama on a level playing field with their principal competitors from the U.S.