I apologize. I had a conflict of interest: we were hosting Rick Hansen at our department and I was the MC. So thank you for allowing me to fulfill that prior commitment.
I think what is clear is the tremendous market and tremendous potential in Brazil and Mercosur, and we've heard about this from the business community for years. If you look at our objectives in the Americas, that's a huge area right in the centre of the Americas. The challenge, of course, will be to see if we can find sufficient interest. And when both sides look at the costs and benefits, will there be a sufficient area of mutual interest that we can proceed with a negotiation? At this point, we're not clear if this particular tool, a trade policy agreement, will be the appropriate tool. I'm sure that Neil has spoken about this already, and we're very clear that there are many tools that we can use to enhance the overall economic and political relationship—we're not confined to one. But this is one in particular and we continue to explore it with the four countries of Mercosur.
Is there a sufficient possibility? We referred to earlier explorations in this regard in 2004 and 2005. That was a different moment for them and for us, as well as globally. So we're very glad to see that those four countries continue to be interested in working with us in partnership, and the big challenge will be to see if there is sufficient interest to move ahead. We just don't have enough information yet to know that.