It's a more recent agreement. For quick transparency about it, the agreement tries to see greater economic co-operation of indigenous peoples between Canada and other countries that have indigenous peoples, such as New Zealand, Australia and Taiwan. All of us have the very unique and ultimate blessing, I'd say, of having indigenous people within the boundaries of our communities. We need to see these groups co-operate.
I'm a champion of this agreement. I think it's a very good agreement that the government has entered into for the purpose of this. My criticism of this, however, comes from trying to engage indigenous people into it. You don't know about it. Many indigenous people I've spoken to don't know about it. I would like to see indigenous people come together with our partners in these communities to ensure that we have a greater framework for the indigenous peoples economic and trade co-operation agreement.
I think it's incumbent upon our committee. We should contemplate studying in the future how we can create a guiding framework for the implementation of IPETCA that would hopefully see tourists, for example, between all of our great countries be able to share resources and share ideas, but also, most importantly, that network, so that we can streamline people into tourism.
Would you be interested, for example, in participating in the Indigenous Peoples Economic and Trade Cooperation Agreement work, should it ever be studied in this committee?
In addition to that question, what do you think the opportunities are for tourists in the Asia-Pacific region?
