Sir, I'll give you a good example.
In terms of autos, the Americans and the Japanese are negotiating auto standards. As Michael Wilson has stated, and as Carlo Dade states, autos are a North American product. There's no such thing as a U.S.-made car or a Canada-made car or a Mexican car, because the parts that go into cars made in North America come from all three parts and can be assembled in all three nations. It doesn't make much sense for us to be negotiating separately, as is the U.S. and Japan to the exclusion of Canada and Mexico. This is where we should be working together. This is where these leaders' meetings can set the agenda and have their officials working together.
When Michael Wilson was the international trade minister, I worked in a group that was negotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement. We had something called international trade advisory committees and sectoral advisory groups that fed in. There's no reason why we can't do that on a North American model, and then take that not just to the Trans-Pacific Partnership but to help us, all three of us, as we are going to be basically negotiating with the Europeans.
The Mexicans already have a free trade agreement. We're on the cusp, I hope, of getting a free trade agreement, and the United States is negotiating as well. We should be looking at North America in the way that the business community looks at it, in a sense of a single entity where frontiers are a hindrance to our competitiveness. That is really what this committee is all about today.