Mr. Speaker, until recently the parallel agreements which exist in NAFTA with respect to the environment and labour
standards were not part of the Chilean discussion because it was a blocking point for the United States. That is why the U.S. could not get it through congress. The majority in congress did not want to deal with those two issues.
In our bilateral arrangements with Chile we had put them on the table because the questions of the environment and labour standards are important and we are negotiating with them.