I think it's a good point, and there are a couple of areas I want to touch on.
When it comes to trade and economic partnership models and design.... Look at what the key drivers and key areas of interest are when it comes to advancing commercial and investment ties. You can create governance models as part of the partnership design. Mr. Dade noted that you want to have yearly visits. You want to have frequent contact, where you have the people coming into the marketplace understanding and learning how policies and frameworks are designed at various levels in the agricultural space.
When you look at the partnership design, you have to ask, “Okay, what is the partnership model going to be? Is it going to be an instrument that will facilitate investment in the marketplace, one that goes beyond an FTA?” Look at support in terms of technical assistance. I think Mr. Dade also mentioned how, back in the day, CIDA put money towards technical co-operation to advance commercial interests. The Europeans are doing it, and so is Indonesia, I heard.
I'll give you an example. The EU and Indonesia have a comprehensive economic partnership arrangement. Most or all of the EU free trade agreements with technical assistance projects have an underlying agenda: commerce and investment attraction. The EU is using a trade-related technical assistance and capacity-building project to strategically work with their partners in emerging and high-growth marketplaces. They have a multi-million dollar program in Indonesia called “ARISE+ Indonesia”. I'd be happy to share more information with you.
Take, for example, this trade-related project—ARISE+ Indonesia with ASEAN. Trade facilitation is a component of that, as well as trade investment policy to support countries that negotiate and comply with the EU free trade agreement.
To the point of my colleagues at Canada West Foundation, if there's an understanding of, let's say, the irritants, or even, from a technical standpoint on the back end of an agreement.... You have the two countries working together already, in addition to an affinity and a relationship that's being developed not only at a political level but also at a technical and scientific level, in order to further advance commercial interests.