Certainly with respect to trade balances and trade deficits, trade policy tools are really not the appropriate tools to try to deal with those issues. I think if the government had a concern about those issues, there are tax policies and questions of currency, etc., that are more relevant to the issues of balance of trade than trade agreements are. It's for that reason that successive Canadian governments, over the last couple of decades, have dedicated themselves to negotiating trade agreements where we think they are in our interests.
On October 2nd, 2012. See this statement in context.