Absolutely. I think this deal and deals like it are vital to ensuring that cars made in Canada have the same competitive access to markets around the world. Otherwise we put ourselves at a disadvantage when we are trying to attract that investment. That's one of the key factors when multinationals are making a decision about where to locate production, so that is an absolutely vital consideration. I think we as a government have to do everything we can to ensure that not only are companies not penalized by locating in Canada, but also that they derive as much preferential access as we can give them to markets around the world. I think that's a very compelling point.
On September 30th, 2014. See this statement in context.