Thank you.
Thank you, Minister, for being here.
You mentioned tremendous opportunities. There was an opportunity in this agreement to advocate for a peaceful two-state solution between Israel and Palestine, but unfortunately the CIFTA that you've presented to us is a missed opportunity in this way. The European Union-Israel deal had provision for it, had language in there, and I'll read to you what it states between the parties. It talks about the provisions of the agreement itself, and it says:
—relations between the parties, as well as all the provisions of the agreement itself, shall be based on respect for human rights and democratic principles, which guides their internal and international policy and constitutes an essential element of this agreement.
We have strong international commitments towards this from Canada. We've certainly signed on to several of them, and so I want to ask you, Minister, why the government didn't include a similar general line at the very least on human rights protection.