Thanks.
I'd also like you to give us the number of DFAIT staff who support those negotiations as well, so that I can get an idea of how many we have, and I'll tell you why. I'm concerned about our resources.
As you pointed out, Canada already has free trade agreements with all four member states of the Pacific Alliance. I think it's clear to anybody who might be listening to this that there are only four members: Chile, Colombia, Peru, and Mexico. Canada has free trade agreements with all four of them. We just concluded one with Colombia in 2011, as you pointed out. We just concluded one with Peru in 2009, and with Chile and Mexico in 1997 and 1994.
We're also of course involved in the TPP, as you've also mentioned, which is another Pacific bloc. So we have the Trans-Pacific bloc and we have the Pacific Alliance.
In the Trans-Pacific bloc, of course, as you have also acknowledged, four of the five proposed members of the Pacific Alliance, including Canada, are already members engaged in the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade negotiations.
Canada is negotiating right now CETA; and with India, Japan, and I understand South Korea; and the TPP.
So I'm just wondering, at this point do you have any evidence to give to this committee as to whether or not you think DFAIT has the resources to conduct another set of negotiations with the Pacific Alliance, given that we already have trade agreements with its individual members and we're already at the TPP table?
Does anybody have an opinion on that?