Yes, it does. The world has changed to one that's more rivalrous rather than co-operative.
In the tangible economy, when you sign a free trade agreement and get rid of friction, everybody wins. However, the ideas economy is based on the principle of friction. They're always creating ways to extract rents. Yes, it absolutely is one that should help us.
It's much harder to create barriers for a highly value-added economy. It's hard to stop a product. It's hard to stop technology products, value-added automotive products or pharmaceutical products, but when it's commodities, it's much easier to create trouble.
On your previous question about how to set up this council and deciding on the kind of roles, if it is of interest to you or the committee, I'd be more than happy to create a paper that summarizes some of the approaches for that.
We have to understand that the world has changed. We're in much greater need of sovereign approaches than we were 30 years ago. The world has changed in the last 25 years.