You cannot just look at whether you're getting a bigger increase in exports than imports or vice versa. You cannot just look at whether there is more investment coming into Canada or going out.
I'll give you an example, and that's the Canada-Chile free trade agreement. With that agreement we've seen a very substantial increase in trade, but a widening in the trade deficit, and a very substantial amount of Canadian investment has gone into Chile. But when you look beneath that superficial pattern, what you find is that Canadian mining companies in particular invested massively in Chile, brought the resource or semi-processed resource product out of Chile into Canada, where it became an import and made our trade deficit look worse. And yet here we were creating a stronger mining sector and opportunities for value added in the Canadian economy.
If you looked at those superficial numbers, you might think it wasn't a good deal, when in fact it was actually a very good deal for both countries.
Concerning human rights, I come back to say that human rights are absolutely important. The elimination of poverty is absolutely important, and we look for ways that a trade agreement and the responsible behaviour of our investors in the country will create a positive environment in communities, environmentally, and for workers. We look at the various complementary initiatives that can be brought into play in terms of human rights.
Our fundamental approach is that we would be disinclined to negotiate a trade agreement with a government that wasn't committed to enhancement of freedom, democracy, human rights, and rule of law. We look for people who have common, similar values.