I would say that you would want to look at the overall creation of export opportunities; you'd want to look at the degree to which there could be offsetting negative consequences; you'd want to balance it out in terms of overall wealth creation, job creation, or job loss. You would also want to do some assessment of the regional implications of certain agreements. That would be, fundamentally, what you would be wanting to do. And you'd want to ensure that the opportunities and the net improvement was a durable, permanent improvement and a permanent opportunity for Canada to do better.
On December 4th, 2007. See this statement in context.