On the same question, as to the ways agreements like this are often used to shore up the power of multinational corporations, as opposed to the powers of democratically elected governments with a responsibility to the public interest, one of the other ways that is done is through investor-state dispute settlement mechanisms. One of the things I note about this agreement—it's been said many times in different ways, and I thank you for the accuracy of your comment today—is that the ISDS provisions of CETA are suspended.
I've heard some members of government say that they're not in there, which of course isn't true, but these do reappear. One of the mysteries about this is that we heard some very strong statements from the Deputy Prime Minister during the CUSMA negotiations about the problems with ISDS provisions and the pride that she felt personally at having them removed from CUSMA.
We have before us a document, this agreement that we're being asked to ratify today, through which, if nothing else is done within three years, provided it's ratified in CETA, we would see similar kinds of investor-state dispute settlement provisions enter into force. Therefore I'm wondering how they even got in here. If this is the position of the Canadian government—and I've heard with some good authority that the U.K. government has not made ISDS provisions a priority or asked for them at all in not just its negotiations with Canada, but generally, as it negotiates a lot of agreements—wasn't this an opportunity for Canada to just move along from the ISDS question? Who is it that wants to see these provisions in here, and why, if Canada is of the view that these kinds of provisions have no place in trade agreements and if the U.K. is not asking for them, would we bother with this three-year review? Why wouldn't we just get rid of these in this very agreement, instead of preserving them and continuing to ask the question and having a default mechanism that they come into effect, rather than requiring a proactive affirmation of them by Parliament in order to actuate these ISDS provisions?