Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you very much to both of our witnesses here.
Mr. Clark, I just wanted to pick up on your remarks earlier. You remarked about our proud history of engaging and working hard on two priorities: we have worked hard on our relationship with the United States and we have worked hard on our independent foreign policy. You made a remark about how the world is changing and that our policy should be innovative and independent.
But I think you appropriately described the multicultural nature of Canada, which gives us the opportunity to be a bridge to many parts of the world, because we have many historic and cultural links.
The challenge, as you said, for a small country is to come up with some focus. A lot of our discussions in our hearings so far have been about Canada and the U.S., and we've had some discussions about Canada, the U.S., and Mexico. You might have heard some of the discussion with the previous witnesses about whether we should be concentrating on a trilateral relationship or be shifting more to a bilateral relationship.
I simply wanted to ask, first, for your take on that particular issue, whether Canada should be emphasizing more a bilateral relationship than a trilateral one.
By the way, Mr. Chair, I'll fire the questioning down to my colleague here, Mr. Young.