That's a very good question.
Fundamentally, Canada places top priority on multilateralism. The WTO and its predecessor, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, have allowed a small but open economy like Canada to achieve trade gains that we could never have achieved on a bilateral basis, because we don't have the geopolitical might that the Americans and the Europeans have, so multilateralism to us is where our number one priority has to be.
We recognize, though, that our trading partners--and we're hearing this more and more from Canadian companies and Canadian exporters--are being disadvantaged because the Americans, the Mexicans, the Chileans, the Japanese, the Chinese, the Australians, the New Zealanders, and the Europeans are all starting to enter into bilateral and regional agreements that are supplemental to the WTO framework. In other words, they're creating preferred market access in their markets and in their trading partners' markets that we're not able to access. That's hurting Canadian companies, so much of our bilateral trade focus is defensive--not all of it, but a good chunk of it. We're finding ourselves disadvantaged in Central America right now, for example.