Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to the witnesses for coming.
In the presentation of Canada Pork International you say, “As a result, Canada Pork International strongly supports Canada's membership to the Pacific Alliance”. As Don said, some of us have a real concern about what we're doing as a committee on this Pacific Alliance issue, because nobody seems to be able to tell us what the concept of being a member of the Pacific Alliance is going to do for us in any fashion, other than to have a nice discussion.
You're saying “strongly supports” a membership in the Pacific Alliance. What would you think it would do for Canada that the trade agreements are not doing, or that further discussion on trade agreements, in terms of improving them, wouldn't do? Some of the witnesses have clearly told us, if you're a member of the Pacific Alliance, does that mean you bring down our labour standards to theirs? We're all going to be in this little wonderful group together—your labour rates, your environmental concerns. So what do you think this membership in the Pacific Alliance is really going to do for us? It's not a trade agreement. They already have those.