I do believe the education level is rising. Let me just take a moment to compliment. There's something called the Canada-U.S. “war room” inside the Prime Minister's Office. It's led by a gentleman named Brian Clow. He has a terrific team. They're really smart and really good, and they are helping guide...along with Ambassador MacNaughton, who is enormously talented, and members of all parties and a former prime minister, so this is not a partisan or a government-only comment.
I do think there has been a lot of progress made in raising awareness, but you have to keep it up. You have to keep coming to Washington, and not just Washington but all over the United States. I think there have been more than 125 touchpoints in the first 100 days of the administration from Canadian policy-makers to U.S. policy-makers. That feels like a lot from up here, but you have to keep it up, because every single interest group in the United States camps out on Capitol Hill. If you have 125 touchpoints, the American meat producers have 10,000, and they are constituents.
Facts are important, the reality is important, and millions of American jobs and the American prosperity do rely on our interconnected economy with Canada. That needs to continue.
The President said he decided not to tear up NAFTA after phone calls from Prime Minister Trudeau and the President of Mexico. I think that's partially true, but I think another big factor was that Sonny Perdue, the former governor of Georgia who is now the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, came with an infographic to say that in the agriculture sector, if we were to tear up NAFTA, that would be a giant detriment to American farmers. I think that resonated as much with the President of the United States as any argument that a foreign leader made, as important as those were.