We look on the renegotiation as an opportunity to take the agreement and what has been a very good working relationship and economic relationship, into the 21st century. Twenty-three years ago, NAFTA was state of the art, as our little three-way statement went with the other associations. That was before the Internet. Things have changed. Now we need an agreement that has aspects of trade that didn't exist back then. We need to include trade in services. We need to include trade affiliated with the movement of goods, after-sales service. We need to be able to move global experts around and across borders and take special teams that are intra-company and move them back and forth.
There are aspects that need to be improved. That's what we would like to see. Use CETA, TPP or other agreements as models, if you like, but even go further. We're talking about a neighbour where we have a lot of cultural similarities. I was involved back when I was in government with the Canada-U.S. agreement and we had to actually compromise a bit when we went to NAFTA.
There's an opportunity here to simply make this the best free trade agreement in the world, and let's go at it with that kind of attitude. This isn't about protectionism. This is about opening up within a group of agreeable parties. Let's use it as an opportunity.