Thank you very much for that question, Mr. Kent.
I think the key here is to differentiate between these two accords. What the Canadian government did on the TPP was to indeed to pause, to wait for the reaction of others around the Pacific to see what would emerge from the general reaction of the other partners. This was largely because everyone, including, it seems to me, the Canadian government, recognized that the withdrawal from the TPP basically ceded the leadership, or the possible leadership, in the Asia-Pacific to China and the alternatives.
When we look, though, a little further than the immediate reaction to how the Canadian government then responded, once it was clear from around the Pacific that in fact there was the possibility of going it alone minus the United States, we saw a rather different reaction from that initial pause. We saw the Canadian government stepping up and providing some degree, it seems to me, of leadership—which is actually ironic, given the course of Canadian engagement with the trans-Pacific partnership over the years.
On the Paris accord, I think the Canadian government's reaction was in line with the reaction of every other government in the world, bar only Syria. To me, it's interesting that you hear in Nicaragua, the only other non-signatory, a desire to revisit their decision not to sign because Paris didn't go far enough in their view.
I think that the universality of the responses to the American decision—and it's not simply the American decision, but how that decision was announced and how the Paris accord was portrayed by the President of the United States—drove the Canadian reaction as much as it drove the reaction of every other country I'm aware of.
I must admit, I'm not entirely sure that the Canadian government has been overly limited in its response to the TPP, on the one hand, or overly incautious on the question of the Paris accord. Is the fact that the United States is out of the Paris accord going to create significant difficulties for Canada in the future? Yes, except for the fact that—and it's one of the reasons I raised the issues I did—there is a considerable degree of opposition within the United States to the President's own positions on this. That provides everyone, not only Canadians, but other foreign countries too, an opportunity to shift what the Americans actually do, not just simply what Mr. Trump says.