I don't anticipate it would have much impact on the negotiations themselves, because I think my counterparts in the European Commission would recognize that statements that might be made might not necessarily represent the views of Canada in the negotiations. I may get certain questions posed to me, which I would anticipate, but I don't think they'd expect those statements to represent negotiating positions until they saw me endorse them in the negotiations.
On November 15th, 2010. See this statement in context.