Good afternoon.
I would like to thank all the witnesses for being with us today.
It's nice to see them again in person. It's been a long time since we've seen them in the flesh.
Mr. Trew, you spoke to us a little about investor protection, that is to say the mechanism we call “investor-state,” which has been removed from the new free trade agreement, the CUSMA.
You tell us that it would be discussed in the context of an agreement with Indonesia, potentially also in the context of an agreement with the Indo-Pacific region, and that it would be a bad idea.
How would such a mechanism really be a problem in terms of rights protection and environmental protection?