Yes, absolutely. I'd be very happy to.
I think on your first more general point around rule setting, what I'd like to pause on for a moment is the fact that the NAFTA and the WTO agreements are 20 years old. They are excellent agreements, the WTO at setting global standards, and the NAFTA being really the vehicle for our integration in North America and much of our prosperity and the establishment of North American platforms. They're very important agreements.
That said, as I was saying earlier, business has changed. The way in which we do business has changed. The digital economy has become much more important. Small and medium-sized enterprises are drivers of our economy. Emphasis on the kinds of rules that need to be put in place to help them is crucial.
For example, things such as lack of regulatory transparency, or having a licensing requirement in a foreign jurisdiction one day and having it changed the next day, can cause some of these small and medium-sized businesses such difficulty that they will retreat from international operations. Maybe they will operate in the United States, but further afield will be a little bit too precarious for them.
In terms of setting the terms of trade, of setting the rules for trade, our responsibility is to create the conditions under which these actors that are the creators of jobs in our country can grow, participate, and flourish, conditions such as regulatory transparency, regulatory predictability, lowering technical barriers, ensuring predictable and secure data flow, and ensuring appropriate protection of their innovation.
We've talked to a lot of businesses—the energy sector was one area—that create small tools and small implements that are used in the resource sector and have large markets in Asia. If as soon as they are sold they are retro-created, then their business, their innovation, and the value of that has been lost, so ensuring that those rules are in place and enforced in this region, and in this treaty as it expands to include other players in the region, is crucial for Canadians.
Did you want me to go on to services? I don't want to keep your—