Well, let's put it this way, Canada does not actually have a free trade agreement with the United States. We still are up against all the protectionist legislation that they can throw at us.
I did an evaluation—it was published in 1993—of the Canada-U.S. trade agreement. It showed that Canada had lost in fact access to the U.S. market, our ability to sell in the U.S. market had declined, and our access to our own market had declined. The U.S. had lost share of its own market. The only place in the world that was growing share was in Canada.
The energy provisions allowed Canadians to subsidize the promotion of industry in energy. We've done that. The result is we've sold off most of our easy-to-reach oil and gas. We have these huge sunk costs in the bitumen production in my native Alberta, and much of those are now stranded assets and we're unlikely to see them in fact be realized. We're looking at an impending industrial disaster, as well as an ecological disaster, from entering into what is essentially an energy agreement with the United States.
For the same amount of money, we could have promoted certain sectors in Canada. We had a very strong presence in CorelDRAW and other industries in Ottawa that were allowed to go under. Nortel, BlackBerry, these companies get up and going, and without the kind of support that other countries give their champions, they end up disappearing, which is a shame.