Thank you, Chair, and thank you to our guests.
Mr. Verheul, it looks as if you're doing the primary responding, but either of you certainly is welcome to do that.
I listened with great interest to what the minister said. I've been on this committee now for some three years, and we've had a lot of discussions around the issue of the EU and the agreements. I was struck by one thing in that Canada's trade represents well over half of our gross domestic product, that one in five jobs is dependent on trade.
My question of you is this. I heard the minister speak in terms of 80,000 new jobs being created as a result of this, and maybe it would have been a fairer question for the minister, but if you've done some of that backup work, can I ask how we came up with that statistic? Eighty thousand new jobs is significant, but I just wonder how we came up with that number.