Canada joined the negotiations at the same time as Mexico, but before Japan. Malaysia joined before us, once the negotiations had already begun.
Every new country joining the TPP promised the other partners that it would not slow down the negotiations and would keep up the pace. Canada made that commitment, and I think that's warranted. So we had to prepare properly or, as we say in English,
we had to be ready to hit the ground running.
We committed to that. We are currently in negotiations.
All international trade negotiations share one specific principle. I will say it in English because I don't know how to render it in French.
We are negotiating what's called a single undertaking, and that means that the treaty itself is not concluded or any element of it concluded until the entire negotiation is concluded. So we joined. We said we would keep pace; we said we would keep up. We did. We are fully integrated and ultimately nothing in the negotiations is agreed until it's all agreed.