Mr. Blaikie, I want to thank you because it's a deeply probative question, and I spend a lot my time thinking about exactly these types of issues.
I'm going to try to hit this in bullet points to fit it into your time because I'm worried that we won't have very much time.
On the issue of indigenous peoples.... I'm very committed and focused on indigenous peoples issues. In fact, I want to commend you and all the other residents of Manitoba on the opening of the Qaumajuq at the Winnipeg Art Gallery. It is a new Inuit art centre that was opening today and yesterday.
They're mostly excluded. Canada put very broad exclusions into treaties like the NAFTA, the CUSMA and other treaties like that so that we don't get that conflict.
I would like to focus on labour rights in particular. I've been a strong proponent of labour rights and was actually very concerned when the Government of Canada pushed the NAFTA free trade commission to restrict the meaning of NAFTA article 1105, which gives specific rights to enforce labour rights. I have had detailed discussions with members of the U.S. Congress, as well as many different parliamentarians and legislators in Canada, about my concern of restricting the coverage.
The problem—again, it's still sort of a chicken and egg—is that we have a lot of things we did because we were concerned about cases. I believe that Professor de Mestral mentioned the first two NAFTA cases. I brought them. The first case Canada lost, and the second case, as I said, Canada would never have lost if it had just given an apology or met—