International Trade committee  Professor Mejía is actually in Washington. I'm not going to try to recreate his regression analysis for you or go through the charts and diagrams, but if you want a deeper explanation of this, I'm sure he'd be happy to come up here if you'd like to have him run through the econom

International Trade committee  Moving right along....

International Trade committee  So the agreement is good for Colombia. The Colombians are anxious to have the agreement signed, for several reasons, and are looking forward to it. Trade will grow. We've seen this with other countries with whom we've signed agreements. Trade has grown with these countries after

International Trade committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. The committee has changed a little since the last time I was here. It's indeed a pleasure to be here for the second time to speak with the committee about Colombia and the Canada-Colombia free trade agreemen

Foreign Affairs committee  I don't have exact numbers, but we did talk about this extensively with Mario Andresol, who's the police chief. He mentioned that they're making special efforts to recruit women. They had problems in the past recruiting. They've changed recruitment tactics, and he said they've ha

Foreign Affairs committee  Sure. In terms of economic growth and investment, there has been quite a bit of success in Haiti. He mentioned the Gildan plant; we also have the free trade zone operating—Ouanaminthe, in the north, along the Dominican border—and cell phone companies: we have four companies in

Foreign Affairs committee  I'll send something in writing. However, with regard to instability, it depends on the situation. If the reworking of the constitution also includes a change to allow a second consecutive presidential term, which some fear, then, yes, we will have major problems. If it's limite

Foreign Affairs committee  Good afternoon, everyone. At the outset, I'd like to beg your indulgence. I arrived last night from Madrid where I gave a talk involving Spain and Canada and dealing with cooperation with Latin America. I'm suffering a bit from jet lag. One interesting point for this committee, t