Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Thank you to both witnesses. Welcome to the trade committee.
Mr. Curtis, I want to start with you. I'm interested in the relationship between job creation and trade deals. There are claims in the case of CETA that it would create some 80,000 Canadian jobs. So far we haven't been able to find witnesses who could actually tell us how many jobs they're going to create or where and when those jobs will materialize. That could be because it's early days. We're in the world of big numbers, where numbers are thrown around.
So I'm curious; in your experience, do trade deals create jobs?