Sometimes it's important in life to look at the things where you can make a bigger difference fast. The trade balance is structural and very difficult. The thing where we can make a huge premium quickly, I think, is by increasing the opportunity to invest in one another's countries. The Taiwanese invest in Canada because it's a gateway to the United States. People forget that the United States' biggest trading partner is not China. It's us.
There is an opportunity to attract investment into Canada and then there's the reciprocal thing, getting into China or elsewhere in Asia. I was first at the world's largest law firm and, when I set up my law firm, left it to found the world's smallest law firm in Taiwan, and then it grew. We ended up with three offices in Taiwan and correspondent offices throughout Asia, but people were always coming to a Taiwan partner to do business elsewhere in China or something like that because the Taiwanese are good partners. They are savvy. They literally speak the language. They know the culture. So those are opportunities.
I would like to respond a little bit to what Madam Alepin said earlier. The concern about sharing information was a big concern for Taiwanese people in Canada. The Taipei Economic and Cultural Office people will tell you that they received some resistance in Canada on an ADTA because of that concern. It's surprising, therefore, that the Taiwan legislature passed it so quickly, passed it a month from the date the two offices signed it. That tells you there was a concern about that. I think many Canadians were concerned about Canada sharing information with the United States. So maybe it's a good thing that's not in there.