I'm not sure I used the term “gateway”, and if I did, my intention was not to indicate that this is a first step towards a Canada-EU agreement.
What I was driving at was a notion that we are able, in this instance, to demonstrate that there is enough of a community of interest with advanced European countries to justify a free trade agreement, even though it is a first generation agreement. This gives us a comparative advantage vis-à-vis these markets in Europe that we did not have before, which should in itself be a stimulant, though a modest one, for the EU itself to regard this as a competitive advantage to us that we did not have in markets that are very close to the EU economies.