The current trade policy strategy of the government, which is described in the “Global Commerce Strategy” available on the website, essentially instructs officials to get more active on a bilateral side, largely because of the impasse or at least the long delays in moving forward in multilateral trade negotiations, for the reasons I described earlier. If we are able to make progress on the multilateral front, that's what's best for Canada.
But in the meantime, the government invested two years ago in a much more active program of bilateral negotiations, the biggest piece of which we finally secured just this past year with the launch of negotiations with the European Union. Those negotiations are moving forward.
In fact, they're moving forward on a very ambitious timetable. The first negotiating session is just a few days away. Five negotiating sessions are planned before this time next year, which is, as trade negotiations go, a very ambitious timetable.
We have as well concluded negotiations with smaller countries. Some are before you in the House, and we are at some point in the process trying to engage many other negotiating partners, including important emerging markets like India.