I'll jump in on that.
One thing I should mention—and maybe I did mention it, but I'll repeat it—is that we have a number of suppliers in our association. We have a relationship with the Canadian Association of Railway Suppliers, and we consulted them before coming here. They are supportive of an agreement with Japan. There are some well-known names such as Bombardier in that group. They obviously have sales around the world now. They realize that fair, balanced trade agreements allow them access to important markets. They also realize that trade agreements help them to maintain their competitiveness here.
My view personally is that if you're still standing in this country as a manufacturer after the recession of 2008, you are globally competitive. Really, what we're talking about here is opening up new avenues of trade, new markets in growing areas.
Now, Japan has had some growth problems, and maybe, thanks to the efforts to enter into the TPP, we may see some agreement with countries that have even higher rates of growth. But Japan is an important market, one where we already have established agreements, established relationships, very good trade patterns. Everything is in place to grow that market.
Certainly, speaking from the $5-billion business of rail supply which employs 50,000 Canadians, I would say let's get a good, strong, fair agreement in place. We'll have that much more of a market to sell our goods to.