Thank you, sir.
I endorse several of the points that the people before me have made and undoubtedly will endorse what people following me will say in the same sense, particularly on the makeup of the dispute settlement mechanisms. Having three businessmen decide the rights of a whole indigenous people in a watershed, for example, doesn't make sense.
Life's not like that. There are scientists and humanists who should also be involved in such things, and maybe a special court is warranted to take care of these things. It's an asymmetrical agreement. You basically have very rich countries, and particularly the United States, on one side, and then there's everybody else.
Canada, it seems to me, has a chance to be a conscience amongst the people who are balanced against the Americans, who basically with this particular treaty are just as anxious to isolate China and Russia as they are to advantage their own large corporations, which will be the principal beneficiaries. I'm not against Canadian companies like Bombardier extending their capacity to do work around the world.
I'll just leave it at that and I'll send you my short paper in due course.