The other issue I see at risk here, quite frankly, is that we do have a change in global economic climate. You mentioned the $12.9 billion of trade we're doing with the EFTA nations, two-way trade between Canada and the four member states. I see this at risk at this present time, if this agreement is not passed, and I see Canada's credibility at risk worldwide. If we can't sign a free trade agreement that we negotiated for nearly ten years with four important trading partners with Canada, but relatively small trading partners on the world stage--Iceland, Lichtenstein, Switzerland, and Norway—then how do we proceed with countries like China, Korea, India, and the European Union and, quite frankly, diversify away from our dependency on the United States?
On February 24th, 2009. See this statement in context.