Let me just give you the context in which we have to develop trade going forward.
The global marketplace is affected by tariffs remaining after the Uruguay Round—there's no doubt about that. But if you really look at the barriers to competitiveness and export success today, you have to go far beyond tariffs to get at the real drivers of competitive success. You have to look at transportation and logistics. Probably more than tariffs, more than any other single initiative that you can pursue is a transportation and logistics system that allows you to get engaged in just-in-time rapid-cycle turnaround flow of goods and services into the global marketplace.
That's what the Asia-Pacific gateway initiative is all about. It's not just about ports or rail or truck, it's about a total system. It's about a regulatory framework. It's about tackling the kinks and discontinuities at the border, of which you've mentioned some, and when I was in Miami yesterday, I spoke quite bluntly to the Americans. I pleaded with them to recognize that when you create those bumps and impediments at the border—and we're seeing far too many of them lately—it's hurting North America. It's hurting Canada. It's hurting the United States; it's hurting their competitiveness. It will hurt Mexico's competitiveness.
So we're going to have to drive very, very hard to make sure that the gateways we talk about in Canada really do allow us to take advantage of what we call “the North American platform”. So we're going to have to drive some of those border issues extremely hard, and then, as you look out into the marketplace, recognize that there's not just the Asia-Pacific gateway, but also the potential Arctic bridge, as they're referring to it, through Churchill and the port of Murmansk. There's the Atlantic gateway. There are the north-south trade corridors in Ontario and Quebec. Those are all going to be critical, and the markets that we will be dealing with won't just be China and Korea. Those will be important markets, but it will also be other markets around the Pacific rim that will take advantage of those gateways.
On the other coast, we're going to be creating a competitive position—pan-Atlantic, and all the markets around the Atlantic rim.