My view on that is that as a global community, and this includes the North American community, we have fallen far short of what's needed to look at environmental impacts in the aggregate.
I mentioned this made-in-Canada tool--ecological footprinting--that's grown up in the last 10 years. This is trying to look at the number of resources that our finite earth gives us to produce what we need to produce and to absorb the waste that we put back into the environment.
We all know that's finite, but what we may not have known is that we crossed a threshold about 20 years ago, based on the best science in terms of ecological footprint and in terms of the overall burden that our economy puts onto the environment. I'm disappointed that the opportunities for more globalized and more liberalized trade are not being used to take a closer look at these aggregate impacts and ecological footprints.
We in the wealthy north have huge environmental and ecological footprints. There should be more, I think, in these agreements that pushes towards that kind of honest, rigorous science.