Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'd like to thank all the participants for being here and for their very informative presentations.
My first question is for Mr. Boehm.
You mentioned your concern with the ISDS and the mechanism in place for any dispute resolution. My understanding of the application of ISDS and how it's been applied in other international trade agreements is that it's the foundation usually for an investor or a company to bring a grievance under the ISDS mechanism, if they are being treated in a different manner than a local domestic company would be treated, which to me sounds like a reasonable threshold to meet for them to bring an action against the state.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're position is, but you seem to be implying foreign investors can bring actions against the state just because they don't happen to like some regulation that might impede their economic progress. I don't think that's what the intention of that provision is. Maybe you can clarify for me the confusion I'm having with reconciling what I think is in the agreement and what reading you're taking of that provision.