International Trade committee  My name is Peter Berg. I'm with the Parliamentary Information and Research Service and I've been staff on this committee for quite some time now—since 2000.

International Trade committee  I'm only going to answer the first part of your question. Based on my experience, a committee submitting a recommendation to suspend negotiations isn't something that's normally done. I'm not a constitutional expert, but we could check to see whether it's possible. In constitutional terms, these people are empowered to conduct these negotiations.