Okay.
There has been disappointment with the first two rounds on how that human rights assessment has been carried out. We had held out hope that there would be a better approach this year. That was crushed last week when we learned how consultations were to be conducted for this year's review, consultations having been opened up for a mere six working days, consultations not in any way being publicized or announced widely, including in Colombia, and the announcement not even being made available in Spanish.
The experience with human rights and the Canada-Colombia deal is instructive for the TPP process. The very positive piece is that it really highlights that assessing the human rights impact of trade agreements is indeed possible and that governments do recognize, as Canada and Colombia did, that there is an important connection between human rights and trade. The problems and shortcomings in how the human rights assessment has been handled with respect to this particular deal, though, highlight that a better methodology, a better approach and stronger commitment are needed.
We certainly hope that Canada will demonstrate human rights leadership in the TPP process, building on and substantially improving that process. It's good for human rights. We think it's also good for business.