Senator Harder, I have a couple of questions. It’s a bit complicated. I’m happy to deal with you offline, if you will, on this. My question is in regard to Bill S-228 and some legal advice that has been offered that Bill S-228 contravenes two central obligations within our international investment treaties, such as the obligation not to expropriate an investment without compensation, it goes on to say that the treaties acknowledge the possibility of indirect expropriation, which means the adoption of a measure by the government that substantially deprives the investor of a fundamental attribute of its investment.

When it comes to farmers and grain farmers — and 65,000 of them or those employed in the bread and bakery industry, or the thousands more who work in tangential industries, I’m wondering if you could offer what legal advice the government has received on that aspect of the bill.