Thank you.
Mr. Stanford, I want to talk about process and the negative list approach to negotiations. I know you work for a labour union, so you must be intimately familiar with negotiations. My understanding is that Canada is almost alone in the world in tabling this approach of a negative list to free trade. They've done that in CETA, where they essentially sit down and say that everything is open to free trade and non-tariff trade except as they may explicitly stipulate in the agreement. That's as opposed to a positive list approach, where companies will sit down at a table and carefully go through each sector, good, or service and discuss them.
I have to say that to me it seems a relatively dangerous way to negotiate, since I can't predict, and I don't think anybody can predict, what goods or services are going to be created five, ten, fifteen, or twenty years from now. We just have to look at something like the computer chip. Twenty years ago nobody could have envisioned what that would do.
So I just wonder if you have any comment on the prudence of a negative list approach to sitting down at a trade table.