International Trade committee  Mr. Chair, thank you for this opportunity that you've provided. The members of the committee would be very welcome to visit us in the spring. For Chile's part at least, we hope to be able to support them in preparing their visit, the trip they will be making to our four countries

International Trade committee  I'll offer the Chilean wine, and you can offer the margaritas.

International Trade committee  That's an excellent question. Naturally, I'm mainly speaking on behalf on Chile, but this applies to the other countries in the alliance. For us, protecting the environment is critical, and we need to ensure that our institutions work well. We've drawn lessons from the past. All

International Trade committee  The advantage of these negotiations is that our countries and Canada already have FTAs, and so we have already discussed and thought about these issues. For Chile, for the modernization of our FTA, we will include the whole issue of origin. We will perfect our SPS measures. We

International Trade committee  For Chile, gender is at the very top of our agenda. That is something we're addressing. In fact, we have also included it when it comes to writing trade agreements. We should recall that when President Bachelet visited Canada during the negotiations for the Canada-Chile Free Trad

International Trade committee  Mr. Chair, I'd like to add that when it comes to Chile, Canada has $20 billion in direct investment. It's the third-biggest investor in Chile, and the biggest one in the mining sector, as I mentioned. However, there are also significant amounts of investment in other sectors, s

International Trade committee  With regard to labour mobility, as the Mexican ambassador said, with countries in the alliance and some other neighbouring countries, Chile has mechanisms that allow for the flow of temporary workers, and obviously this is something that interests us in the Pacific Alliance and s

International Trade committee  I'd like to talk about what Chile has done in discussing this and putting it forward for the consideration of the business sector, civil society, and all stakeholders who have something to say in the agreements that Chile takes part in. Chile has 24 free trade agreements; that's

International Trade committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. It's a pleasure to be here. Thank you very much for inviting us to give a presentation. For all of us it is very important to be here sharing with this committee. In my case, I will present the points of view of Chile on a potential agreement