I think you raised a really important point about dispute resolution, indirectly, which is one of the areas I specialize in.
The WTO has been experiencing, for the last many years, real difficulties in dealing with its dispute resolution mechanism, which is really marginalizing it in many ways and is increasingly unfortunate.
What that does is it forces countries to take the bull by the horns, so to speak, and address those types of issues in free trade agreements. I think our trade associations have been very mindful of that, and the focus has been on developing free trade agreements like the ASEAN agreement, which is obviously an absolutely critical region for Canadian trade and investment.
From my perspective and what I wanted to speak about today on investment is that, although not called a non-tariff barrier, it is an impediment to Canadian activities in regions like ASEAN if international protections, not only trade protections but also investment protections, are provided for investors.
Part of it is that international trade isn't just about sending stuff abroad. Our companies work abroad. They have operations abroad. To have that complete business model, many of them operate a large percentage of their business abroad. The types of protections you can see in investment agreements and in investment provisions of these types of treaties are absolutely critical, again, to provide that environment where, whether you call them non-tariff barriers or not, you must have the top-quality provisions.