Thank you.
As I was saying at the start of my comments in the previous hour, we have some concerns here about the timelines around this.
Mr. Christie, you mentioned that this trade deal is signed, and it's too late for us to change anything in it. In some sense, I wonder what we're doing here, but that's another story. We should have had opportunities to have real discussions among parliamentarians before the negotiations started so that we could get an idea of what your department's objectives were and what your priorities were.
In the winter of 2020, the PowerPoint said, you carried out meetings with stakeholders and had consultations, but that wasn't done with parliamentarians until after the negotiations started. As I say, there's a policy that says it should happen well before that.
I'm just wondering, first of all, what your policies and directives are on this. Second of all, if there's any time left, what did you hear from your consultations with stakeholders?