The government remains committed to helping investors and Canadian investors protect their interests overseas. There are a number of ways that we can do that. Negotiating free trade agreements and foreign investment protection agreements helps to provide the transparency and predictability that our investors need.
Traditionally we've sought to include provisions that allow investors to defend their own interests. That's largely been handled by way of investor-state dispute settlement. Our approach to including investor-state dispute settlement in our agreements is flexible. It will largely depend on the partner that we're dealing with.