I'm not here to argue with you. I'm just here to make some sort of headway, because you also talked about the European countries that have secured the markets unfairly.
My concern here is this. I'm not here to blame the officials, but as our negotiators are moving towards putting this deal together and are looking at these potential bugs there so we can go to the table.... A negotiated free deal is never one-sided; it's give and take. I'm sure we all agree. We in Canada had to give up a little bit, and I'm sure they did as well, but I'm always so upset with the Europeans because they always manage to subsidize, somehow, in some way.
What upsets me more than anything else--and I think Mr. Harris brought it up in terms of the softwood lumber arrangements--is that if these issues are not addressed, down the road we find ourselves being taken to the international courts, challenges are brought forth, and so on. Then we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars to address this and argue back and forth. I'm sure my colleagues here agree that we don't want to see hundreds of millions of dollars wasted or held in trust, etc., or whatever, only to find ourselves really no further ahead seven or eight years down the road.
I'm just putting a point to the officials. Did they do their work, do you think, Mr. Risser, in putting this deal together? Are you saying this was not done properly? Is that why you're suggesting that we should not sign this deal?