Thank you so much for your presentations today.
I have a couple of things. Mr. Sprague, you mentioned aboriginal treaty rights. Unfortunately, aboriginal people were not consulted at all on the Trans-Pacific Partnership. We've had them here before this committee. In the actual document itself, there's no reflection of the rights they are owed here in Canada.
There's no jurisprudence, no case law that applies in the investor-state dispute settlement resolution processes. Even if we had those in Canada, they would not apply, unfortunately.
The question I have for you is around the standstill. I think it is important for folks to understand that, in the standstill clause itself, think about pharmacare. If we enter into the TPP today, and then down the road we decide we'd like to implement pharmacare in Canada, we could be sued for doing that, because we will not be able to create new public programs for the benefit of Canadians. I wonder if you could speak to the impact of the standstill clause on public sector workers.