Thank you. My apologies for that computer glitch. I had to reboot everything.
Thank you to the witnesses for being here.
I'm going to go back to some of my earlier questions of the minister and perhaps get a little more detail and a little different perspective.
The first one, obviously, is about the investor-state dispute mechanism that we've managed to remove from the Canada-U.S. part of this trade deal. We've just finished this study on the Canada-Ecuador free trade negotiations, and Canada seems to be taking a pretty hard-line stance on ISDS there, I would say, despite Ecuador's clear intention of not allowing that.
ISDS seems to be going out of favour in many parts of the world in terms of free trade agreements. We have side letters between Australia and New Zealand and the U.K. when it comes to CPTPP. We see the EU changing its views on ISDS.
I'm just wondering what Canada's policy on ISDS is, because we seem to be celebrating its being removed from CUSMA and yet pushing it hard in new trade agreements. I'm just wondering if someone could perhaps fill me in on where we are with investor-state dispute mechanisms, which many Canadians think are very deleterious to Canadians and, really, Canadian sovereignty.