Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Welcome back, Mr. Neve, it's always good to see you.
To Ms. Kutulakos, welcome to our committee.
I want to jump right into my first question to you, Ms. Kutulakos. It was interesting looking at your bio online. You attended the University of Wisconsin, with a great interest in Mandarin. You went from Taiwan in China to Toronto, Canada. It's a very diverse experience, so I appreciate your input here at the committee today, and I wanted to get a little bit of more input as far as your perspective on TPP is concerned.
You mentioned Canada's need of a strategy for Asia. We do have the global markets action plan. GMAP identifies Canada's strong economic growth not only for now but for the future, and it identifies with our interest in China, Asia. We just had the official announcement earlier this month of the completion of the negotiations in Canada-Korea, and of course there's the gateway that this provides into the Asian market and bilateral discussions are just under way and there's the fifth round of talks this week with Japan.
So we're working towards that direction and we also had at this committee from an organization called the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, Mr. Yuen Pau Woo. He talked about the benefits of the TPP, and representing the riding in the Okanagan of Kelowna—Lake Country in British Columbia, there were the benefits, obviously, for the forestry industry, seafood. He talked about tariffs being reduced on agriculture, specifically horticulture—blueberries, cherries from my riding, ice wine.
An interesting point is that I was advised by the Wine Institute that Korea has the highest price point of red wine in the world, so there's a great opportunity for expanding there too. I'm just wondering what is your organization's relation to the Asia Pacific Foundation? Do you work together?