I'm trying to tell you that the government is locked in a bygone era. That's why I use the metaphor of the stroke. If you've ever read books on strokes, you can try to persuade someone they have a right arm and they don't believe you. “No, I have no right arm. It's not there.”
I could go chapter and verse. It says we have the most free trade agreements in the world. If they're instruments for regulatory remote control, then we're the most shackled in the world. They're instruments of shackling, not of enabling, if you don't approach them with expertise, which it did not. It approached them with a 1970s production liberalization model, and then it gaslights by saying we're the envy of the world.
When I engage with these people.... Europe fights tooth and nail and refuses to concede to the very things Canada conceded to, because it knows it's the end of the game.