I'd like to call the meeting to order.
We want to thank our witness, the Ambassador of Chile, for being here.
Ambassador Ibarra, thank you for joining us today. To put our committee work into a little bit of context, this committee is studying the benefits right now of Canada joining the Pacific Alliance as a full member. We have observer status at the present time. Next week we'll have DFAIT here on Monday, and representatives from Peru and Colombia on Wednesday. That gives you a little bit of context to what we are studying.
We want to thank you, Ambassador, for coming forward. We have a bilateral agreement with Chile. We look forward to your presentation and I'm sure we will follow it up with some very good questions.
With that, Mr. Ambassador, the floor is—