Robin alluded to this in his comments. Australia has already concluded an agreement with Japan. It will put us at a severe disadvantage in relation to Japan, if we do not have that agreement with Japan as part of the TPP.
If we don't think that politically there will be acceptance of the TPP in the United States, for example, which will then kill the TPP as a whole, we should be starting now to reopen those conversations with Japan. We've gone through a lot of the exercise; we know what needs to be done. It wouldn't take that long. Nothing is ever easy in a trade negotiation, but to conclude an EPA is in our interest and it's in Japan's interest, quite frankly.
I was in Japan a week and a half ago. I had conversations with people there. Their view is that they're going to ratify the TPP to support the Americans and their approach, but the reality is, based on my own experience—I spent a third of my career in the United States—that the United States will do politically what it's going to do. My own view, which I told to the Japanese when I talked to them, was that this is one of those things whereby, if you move forward with Canada, that is what will get the Americans' interest—more so, perhaps, than ratifying.