Thank you.
There's no doubt that there is a lot of good news and bright prospects in the future, but I think it always behooves us to look as well at where some of the difficulties may lie in negotiations between our two countries. I want to turn to some of the difficult issues.
Mr. Sood, you talked about a lot of business coming down, quite properly, to cost-benefit analysis and purchasing goods and services based on what's cheapest. That's the way business works.
I want to turn to labour standards in India. I'd like to know what you can tell us about the minimum wage in India, what workers are paid, and whether businesses in India have to pay for public health insurance or unemployment insurance. I'd like to find out if you can tell us anything about the use of child labour, if that's a practice that's still being used in India in any part.
I'd also like to find out about safety enforcement. We've heard stories over the years of tragedies that have occurred in factories. There have been fires and workers have been killed in large numbers; they basically have been locked in the factories.
If we are to have a free trade agreement with India that reduces tariffs, I am wondering what you think of the playing field between Canadian businesses and Indian businesses, if there's such a wide differential between what those businesses have to contribute in meeting labour and human rights standards.