The SPP is not designed to track an overall reduction in barriers or regulations or indeed an increase in barriers or regulations. It's designed to be a cooperative process in which government officials who are experts in particular fields can examine the ways in which we might together do something to achieve a shared goal that perhaps wouldn't happen if we didn't talk to one another.
For example, take an area like regulation, which could have health regulation as an objective or environmental regulation as an objective. One thing we'd like to ensure when we create those regulations is the way in which we do it, so that the regulation does not reduce the competitiveness of operating in North America.
For example, if you're going to require different label sizes on a product, the U.S. has its own requirements, as do we and as does Mexico. Each government has prepared its own particular regulations on the size of the lettering and what has to be in it. In and of itself, those are good things to do, but they can create a barrier or a cost to somebody who wants to produce a product for the three markets. If we could find a way to ensure that the regulations on labeling were somehow consistent so that a business person operating in either one of the three countries could more easily conform to those regulations, it would no longer become a barrier to the cost of operating in North America.