Madam Speaker, I thank the member for Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot for his speech.
One of the things I find odd about this agreement is that representatives of the current government have repeatedly condemned investor-state dispute resolution provisions even though 20% of the agreement, which is only five or six pages long because it references the agreement with Europe, relates to keeping the investor-state dispute resolution mechanism option open.
In the member's view, why has so much time been spent on this resolution mechanism, which the government says it does not want in free trade agreements?