First and foremost, being part of the Trans-Pacific Partnership is the cornerstone. I think it's really critical that Canada be there at the outset, that we not use domestic challenges as a reason not to be there at the table, knowing that some of our partners are negotiating from a very strong basis.
I think we've accepted in our foreign policy that China is the rising star in the world and building a constellation of other countries around that, but fundamentally we have to be engaged in Asia on every front. Europe will probably have a hard time growing at more than 1% on a sustained basis for the next 25 to 50 years. European countries are aging very quickly. We're not quite as old, but we have the same tendencies, whereas Asia is where the dynamic population growth is and where the integration is going on. You can see that the numbers are gradually shifting. Canadian companies are figuring out that they have to be in Asia in a big way.
But I think TPP is kind of the next step, finding a way to engage all the countries around the Pacific Rim. I don't know how big a market that is, but accessing about another billion people on a tariff-free basis would be a great step forward.