Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I welcome our witnesses.
I'm going to split my time with Mr. Holder, so I'll try to be succinct. I have two questions, the first for Mr. MacLaren.
Mr. MacLaren, you've spent a lot of time in government in Canada and you've had an illustrious career. You've seen the trade balance from both sides, from the political side and from the business side. We appreciate that.
You mentioned in your opening comments the stalemate at the Doha Round and the difficulty of pursuing binding multilateral trade agreements anywhere on the planet. Is there potential here for this agreement—because I believe there is—to lead the way for future agreements? If we can come to grips with a number of issues such as government procurement and all those issues that have never been on the table before, is there a potential to really break that stalemate here?