International Trade committee  Correct.

International Trade committee  Well, I'll go back to my answer before. Through the Canada Gazette process, they, like everybody, were able to submit their views and opinions. There were open public updates that I provided and that some of my leads provided on a regular basis, to which different labour organiza

International Trade committee  Everybody was invited, to be frank. They were open.

International Trade committee  Right. Certain stakeholders or individuals signed confidentiality agreements. What's a good example of this? We had incredibly technical negotiations with the auto parts companies and associations, with respect to the rules of origin on autos. We really did need to have very tech

International Trade committee  In those situations, it was in order to do our job properly and to consult properly with the affected industries. That's one example. Cultural industry is another example where we really had to get into the details of what was happening in the negotiations. In those situations, w

International Trade committee  No.

International Trade committee  Yes. We were aware of the meetings. Dany, do you want to speak to that?

International Trade committee  I'm going to let Sarah, who is the deep expert on this, answer your questions. She is getting her deep documents out.

International Trade committee  No, I've never heard that.

International Trade committee  No, not really.

International Trade committee  Do they mean penalized under the TPP or penalized...?

International Trade committee  That's more of a domestic policy, political question, to be frank. How it is decided and what is decided with respect to helping sectors adjust, and the balance of that, is not our area of expertise. What I can say is that in providing support to Canadian industries of any kind,

International Trade committee  No.

International Trade committee  Yes.

International Trade committee  Right. There were different ways. We issued a Canada Gazette notice, and anybody could give their views, and many people did. We had various web-based updates. We also took meetings, not me but all of them. My team took meetings.