The aim of the Pacific Alliance is deeper integration so they can act more like one entity. The degree to which they end up acting like one consolidated entity or a closer alliance remains to be seen, but the ambition is to act more like one entity.
To assess what we would get, we have to look at it on two levels. In terms of technical issues, if we would get more than we have under our current FTAs on the trade policy front remains to be seen. But if you look at it on a policy level, when you enhance relations with the individual members of the PA and the Pacific Alliance as a whole, you increase those contacts. When you increase those contacts among businesses, for instance, among folks in your trade ministries, your economic industries, you end up increasing business ties.
It's like a force multiplier, in producing additional trade benefits. The extent to which it's a force multiplier we don't know yet. As I said, we're at the exploratory stage, but I think it's pretty clear that the economic growth rates in the Pacific Alliance member countries lead Canada to believe that it's in our interests to enhance our relations with the Pacific Alliance. How has not been decided.