My view is that the NAFTA was an excellent agreement. It served its purpose. It's 15 years old. It's all implemented. The issues that we have identified in the report are bilateral issues, not trilateral issues, and to hold them hostage to the equally complicated but different Canada-U.S.-Mexico relationship I think is the wrong way to go. I'm not saying ignore Mexico, but let's do what we need to do in order to get the Canada-U.S. relationship right and to speak to the issues that now confront the relationship.
On February 23rd, 2009. See this statement in context.