Thank you very much, Gerald.
I'm here officially as FCM's representative as chair of the finance and intergovernmental arrangements committee, and I can certainly talk on the Canadian perspective. Relative to my personal view, I think you and I have had that conversation at home as to where the benefits would lie, but officially, on behalf of FCM, I have to hold that position as a personal view.
We at FCM have made it very clear that we believe in free and fair trade. We are a nation built on trade and we are a nation that will be sustainable based on trade. We want to make sure that there's fairness in this agreement. What we are doing as FCM is positioning our municipalities in such a way with the federal government, any federal government, to make sure we're protecting the rights of individuals and that we are going to get a deal that will be fair and just for us and all Canadians.