The national sovereignty of states is one of the points I absolutely want to discuss. This was mentioned earlier, but the investment protection mechanism that allows businesses that lose potential profits to sue countries really threatens the sovereignty of provincial and federal governments. There was, for instance, the suit launched by Lone Pine Resources, that is seeking $250 million because of a measure aimed at protecting the common good in connection with the extraction of resources. This is also happening in Ecuador. The Chevron company is suing the government to have a judgment reversed that would force it to participate in cleaning up the part of the Amazon it has polluted badly.
Ms. Gendreau spoke about the protection of intellectual property. CISO is quite concerned about the patenting of medications. This threatens to greatly affect the poorest populations' access to generic drugs. I am thinking particularly of HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis, diseases that are very widespread. The increase in the duration of patents and the potential difficulty of challenging them in the context of the agreement could block that access.