Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Van Harten, you mentioned that it is difficult to determine what we're actually dealing with without looking at a text. Well, we have the same problem. We have the same problem on every trade agreement that we're dealing with, including the Canada-European trade agreement.
It's a real concern. We are parliamentarians, and we have not seen any texts, only what we've seen leaked out from some other countries. It does indeed make it extremely difficult. Not many people are going to basically oppose the theory of a trade agreement. That seems to be what we're dealing with here at the moment.
I know from previous information you've provided us, and from previous statements you've made, that you do have fairly substantive concerns about FIPAs and how they can impact a country. I think you said that no Canadian investor has ever recovered money in terms of our protection abroad, but we have had a substantive number of cases go the other way within Canadian territory.
This really is my question to you: how do we better protect Canada's interests in terms of these agreements, especially as it relates to FIPAs?