International Trade committee  Could I follow up and be a little bit more specific on two elements of the environment provisions that we've had a fair amount of discussion on? I'd like to specify that the agreement does allow any citizen of either country to provide a written question regarding any obligation under the agreement with respect to the environment.

International Trade committee  Thank you for the question. What happens under this trade agreement is that if a citizen has a concern over the perceived lack of enforcement of a law within that country, then they can go through a dispute resolution process that is laid out in the agreement. It does go up to the ministerial level.

International Trade committee  For the process itself, quite frankly, there are no timelines laid out in the agreement. But generally this sort of process is meant to be--and in discussions with the Peruvians, it was well understood to be--a fairly timely responsive process. One of the things we also pushed for was political accountability.

International Trade committee  In terms of sanctions, effectively this is a political agreement between two parties, and therefore it's up to those individuals, in terms of that level of accountability, to come forward with an appropriate response. If it's seen as being insufficient, etc., then we have the political mechanisms in both our countries to hold the individual parties to account.

International Trade committee  Great. Thank you for the questions. To the first question, I don't know their actual ranking, but that's an easy one for us to get back to you on. On their key concerns, most of the negotiations with Colombia--especially near the end, when we were talking about the specifics on cooperation, which was of significant interest to the Colombians--focused on the issues you talked about.