Peter Kent at the Foreign Affairs and International Development Committee

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thanks to you both for your attendance here today. It's always stimulating to hear your insight and offered advice.

First, with regard to Professor Nossal's point about how governments deal with unprecedented situations, when the United States announced its withdrawal from the TPP, our government hit the pause button for reconsideration. That reconsideration of next steps is ongoing. When the United States announced its withdrawal from the Paris agreement, there was an immediate reaction to recommit immediately, without review and reconsideration of our interconnected economies and the impact of going it alone on the continent.

I'm wondering if you could offer, Professor Nossal and Mr. Robertson, some thoughts on that.