Thank you very much.
I always appreciate the member's good feedback and comments to me and the government on this and on other matters. I want to thank you and your party for supporting this FTA in the House.
On this agreement in particular—particularly since the negotiations—Global Affairs and the officials were here in February 2022 and April 2022 to have full and ample conversations and discussions, giving colleagues an opportunity to ask the officials any questions they would like to on this particular agreement, in addition to the regular consultative processes that it has with stakeholders and others. I agree with you that the work parliamentarians do is utterly important.
With respect to the obligation to provide the notice, there is a provision that allows for some ability to not do that in some instances. In this case—I'll be candid—we elected to do that because my Ukrainian colleagues asked for the expedited method for this trade agreement because they wanted to take it through their legislative process. That's what we did in this instance. The officials came here.
I would also say that, with respect to the economic impact assessment, it's not required unless it's a new agreement. This one is not a new agreement. This is an existing agreement that's been modernized. What we did do—and this has been published fully—is in-depth environmental and gender-based analysis, GBA+, assessments. Those were both conducted and published for this agreement.