I actually feel I have asked the witnesses throughout the whole thing whether there was any way they could tell us there has not been development in the last 10 years in that country. That is what I have been trying to get at with my assessment of the development that's taken place in the country, and the investment there by Canadians, and the partnerships we've formed with them over the last few years. I've kept on asking the witnesses if they can challenge me and say that's not the case. I think that both statistically and in terms of the development of our trade and partnerships with them, it would be quite to the contrary, and that in fact the country has made incredible progress.
I think it's something we should recognize and respect. We should support the agreement, building on our relationship of friendship, which I think can develop into a partnership, so that we can actually engage on that country's many issues. We hope to be further involved not only commercially but also socially and culturally and on labour issues. I think that's a positive thing for Canada.
We're trading anyway; it's happening. The question is whether we want to have some rules in place and whether we want to have a template in place so that we both can work to achieve that.