I've spoken to Sandra Pupatello, my counterpart in Ontario, and she understands that an ambitious free trade agreement with the EU will be beneficial to Ontario. Manufacturing in Ontario accounts for 94% of the province's total goods exports and 58% of Canada's total manufacturing exports.
If we can build on that by opening up this huge market, the largest common market in the world, you can imagine the benefits not only to Ontario but to every other province. I have a list of products in each of the provinces that will stand to benefit from greater access to the European Union. Once Canadians understand how critical this agreement is to their long-term prosperity, they will see that the opposition being raised in certain quarters in Canada is simply ideologically based. It isn't based on the merits and the facts of the arguments.