Let me try to unpack it a little bit.
I was present when Secretary Napolitano delivered the speech to which I think you're referring. There is a danger for Canada. The remarks I've made about the International Boundary Commission, I think, go to the heart of that problem.
Canada has an opportunity to protect a separate treaty, a distinct treaty, with respect to its border with the United States, and it's not doing so. To the contrary, it's capitulating on the terms of that treaty with reference to the previous administration. That's dangerous. That's precisely what I was addressing.
In your larger terms as to reopening NAFTA, I counsel against reopening NAFTA, but not for the reasons that are conventional in Canada. I don't see a sigh of relief as being appropriate when the President says that he is not interested in moving on this right away. To the contrary, it should be interpreted as an opportunity to do something else.
The concerns expressed by everybody on this panel were concerns that are reflected, it seems to me, in the failure of NAFTA to provide any institutional support for a response to any of the problems of the last 12 months. In particular, for example, is the procurement question. If you recall, when NAFTA was negotiated, there was to have been a further negotiation for reciprocity between provinces and states and for opening up state and local governments. That negotiation began and failed. It was never resumed.
The Australians, with an agreement only four years old, have agreements with 33 states. Canada has agreements with none.