Thank you for that question.
My proposal is to initiate, with some imagination, negotiations on a different agenda and to set NAFTA aside. What NAFTA is, it is. Much of what's at the heart of NAFTA can't be fixed. Chapter 19 could have been fixed years ago, and we developed a full analysis of that. I've discussed that in front of this committee. But no one showed enough interest in doing so. There was a brief moment when Prime Minister Martin did indicate he wanted to fix chapter 19, but there were no takers.
So I'm now saying there is an agenda and you're hearing it at this table. You're hearing it about procurement, you're hearing it about black liquor, you're hearing it about climate change. That agenda needs to be the subject of a different agreement. If Canada were to take the initiative in structuring that negotiation and say we want a different understanding in North America, we want to do things jointly, we want to bring imagination to the agenda that we hear in the White House from President Obama, I think it changes the relationship in ways that can only benefit Canada. But I think if you keep scratching on all the scabs of NAFTA, it will not be beneficial to Canada and it won't be beneficial to the continent.