Not only is it a good answer, I think it's an essential answer for the future prosperity of Canada.
TPP holds out an opportunity with Japan. It also holds out the opportunity to refresh our relationship with the U.S. and Mexico. As you know, we're not renegotiating NAFTA. It's going to increasingly be outpaced by new generation agreements like the Canada-EU deal.
If we look at our empirically driven trade statistics and where our businesses are trading and where we're establishing new markets, China is our third largest import and export relationship. In fact, it's our second largest source of imports, and the absence of a more sophisticated relationship is a huge gap in our trade policy.
It's hard, but our competitors have done it. Australia has a strategic dialogue with China that depoliticizes the leader's annual visit. It just becomes an annual piece of business. As the world moves more and more to if not a G-0 then a G-2 world where both China and the U.S. are incredibly important in their spheres of influence, having that regular relationship with China would be important.
New Zealand has seen its agricultural exports to China increase fivefold since its free trade agreement with China. So, it's hard, but we need to do it.