Ambassador Wilson and I are in sync on this.
Your question, Mr. Dewar, is a very good one. It's helping to refine the thinking about this issue in response to the TPP.
Here's the issue. A broader agenda for North America can be put together by things we want to talk about, things we need, and things we think we can get away with with the Americans—things to which they'll agree.
But an issue that will bring this all together is how to respond to the TPP. The focus isn't the TPP itself; it's all of the issues that are occasioned by us entering into a broad Pacific agreement that instead of just two other partners has, again for all intents and purposes—including Korea—12 other partners. It's going to have profound changes on 20 years of how we've structured businesses.
We've built businesses and integrated supply chains with the idea of North America, with the idea of having not just access to the United States and Mexico but privileged and somewhat unique access to the United States and Mexico. What happens for Mexican businesses, Bimbo, and others, which have built a model on taking advantage of this privileged access? What happens to Canadian companies that have built models taking advantage of this privileged access? What about automobiles? We don't build automobiles in Canada; we build them in North America. What about beef? Our beef industry is largely North American.
If you start to actually think about responding to the TPP and which industries are going to be impacted, which working groups, and which initiatives are going to need to be changed, you have an agenda that's broad and that speaks to the immediate challenge. Some would say it's a threat, and some would say it's a huge opportunity coming up in the next couple of years that we're going to miss.
If you start to do the work of talking about the TPP, to think about it, to work through all of the impacts, then you see the agenda before the impacts appear after the TPP shows up and we're scrambling to try to figure out what hit us.