Thanks very much, Chair and committee, for this opportunity to come to address you again about the Canada-Europe trade negotiations. I'm a trade campaigner with the Council of Canadians. We're Canada’s leading social justice citizens advocacy organization, with over 100,000 supporters across the country.
We were here way back in 2011 to present to committee some of our concerns with the agreement as it was shaping up at that point. I'm going to repeat some of that today because, from the information we've learned from the technical briefing that was released by the government at the end of October and from some more leaked documents, we still feel very concerned about these specific areas. I'm going to make the case that our views are actually shared by a lot of Canadians, by a majority of Canadians in some cases, such as on procurement, and that these concerns are shared across the political spectrum as well.
For the sake of not running out of time, because you have the presentation in front of you, I'm going to skip to the main points here.
In November we did a poll where we tried to look behind some of the numbers we were seeing around support for CETA. The government statistics for polls saying—