Good morning. Thank you very much for having invited us to express our viewpoint on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement.
Mr. Jobin was talking earlier about what it would cost to not be a part of this agreement. For our part, we would rather talk about what it will cost to be a part of it. We represent the Centre international de solidarité ouvrière, the CISO, an international solidarity inter-union group that has been in existence for 40 years and now has more than 80 union members in Quebec. Our mandate is basically to create solidarity between workers here and those elsewhere in the world.
One of the issues we certainly wish to discuss is decent work, here and elsewhere in the world, as well as the democratic issues surrounding the Trans-Pacific Partnership. As Mr. Jobin was saying, we have had access to very little information on the negotiations and the last documents about it. Among other things, we ask that parliamentarians be included in these discussions and that citizens have access to the information that would allow for enlightened democratic choices with regard to that agreement.
May I introduce Denise Gagnon, the president of CISO.