While I'm not an expert in trade agreements what I can tell you is this. I am sure there will be challenges in that way to begin with, but I believe that Canadians are among the most competitive in the world. We are among the highest educated workforces in the world, so I believe we will be able to sort that out. I believe what is required is balance.
I also go back to the fact that we have a duty to try to find the most efficient use of tax dollars. We found this out with the American trade agreement for instance. It opened up some of those corridors. In my local area, window manufacturing, for instance, which is not really pure procurement per se, but our trade benefit for windows for large projects in the United States was actually higher after NAFTA than it was before.
Is there a risk there? Yes. But I go back to the fact that I'm just a simple businessman, a chiropractor, a mayor, a small business owner, and I have had some pretty simple boy looks at it. We have 35 million people in one of the largest countries by land base in the world versus 300 million people. As for the desire for us to niche into that market, I think the odds are well in our favour.