Thank you, Chair. Thank you, Mr. Herman and Mr. Sookman.
The great thing about these meetings is that we get to meet individuals like yourselves, witnesses who bring a great deal of experience and expertise in your field, and also to hear from witnesses who are really polar opposites. Listening to both of you right now, in terms of being very favourable to the TPP, and having heard from Professor Geist and Mr. Balsillie about how the TPP is kind of the worst thing that we can ever sign on to, leads us to trying to balance all of that.
I want to go back to how all this started. Mr. Balsillie mentioned that no Canadian innovator was ever consulted as we were negotiating into this TPP. I want to ask you, were you consulted by the previous government?