Mr. Speaker, let me thank the hon. member for her question.
Currently we are engaged in negotiations to set rules and regulate the investment portfolio because today there are over 1,300 different bilateral investment agreements. In fact Canada has either signed or negotiated up to 50 of the agreements. There is a need to multilateralize.
At the same time I am sensitive to the hon. member and other hon. members. Obviously we need to do that in an open and transparent fashion. That is precisely the reason we have sent members of Parliament information packages, briefed our trade critics, offered briefings to our caucuses, as well as indicated to—