The most important thing we need to do is ex ante data discovery. We need to do some analysis on what will be the impact of a proposed Pacific Alliance free trade agreement on women's lives.
There are places we can look for help. I mentioned the OECD. UNCTAD also has the gender and trade tool box, which I think is a very good methodology for studying the potential impact of a free trade agreement. It's only been tested in one case so far, and that's the proposed economic partnership agreement with the east African community and the European Union. The caveat, as I mentioned before, is the data doesn't study the impact of the free trade agreement on women in the informal economy. There needs also to be some qualitative study on the impact of the free trade agreement. Better data is the most important thing, I think.
Then we need to think about some positive discrimination. Canada has proposed, in the context of domestic services regulation, both in the TISA negotiations and in the WTO negotiations, some positive differentiation for women. That makes it easier for women to get licensing, for example, so it's cutting the red tape to give preferential access to women.
That's on the domestic services side, but there are other places where we can give preferential access. We have some experiences with this on the LDC side. We can think about the LDC services waiver, which is something that we have agreed to as far back as Nairobi in 2015. In the WTO context, we could think about some kind of positive differentiation for women in the services context in Canada. To steal your question, I think that maybe we give preferential access to women-owned service providers in the Canadian economy. We could take some positive regulatory approaches like that.
I already told you about what I think of the ISDS provision, so I won't belabour the point.
I think we need to work really closely with our trade partners. I mentioned Côte d'Ivoire, the Netherlands, and Iceland. I think we need to take a leadership role in some of these big intergovernmental organizations that have initiatives under way.
We need coherence on this agenda. We don't want a whole bunch of initiatives blooming around the world that are potentially working at cross-purposes. This is an ideological issue as well as a practical issue.
One place where we could build some coherence is in aid for trade. Canada is quite a leader in aid for trade, the delivery of official development assistance to better integrate women, for example, into global markets, but doing so in a way that is sensitive to some of the other progressive items that I've talked about today.
Those are maybe four.