From a trade perspective, I will echo the comments made earlier on having Canada take a leadership role in ensuring there is international recognition of standards and science-based decision-making at the international level. This is critical to ensuring that our negotiators and those working on market access issues have the resources to address these issues and negotiate free trade agreements in a timely manner and help us go after the markets that our competitors are also going after.
On November 17th, 2016. See this statement in context.