Thank you.
This is an important issue. The committee members will realize that Canada's negotiators stood their ground, be it in Da Nang or throughout the process, to improve the existing agreement.
You talked about culture. For Canada's cultural industry, we managed to get protection that will help us invest in culture, preserve it and promote it. This is an extremely important issue. I have to thank the Prime Minister for that. Canadians know that we fought every step of the way to preserve this very important sector. The same goes for the automotive sector, where we made substantial gains in terms of access to Japanese, Malaysian and Australian markets.
This shows that Canada does not want to conclude any old agreement. We have an agreement that benefits Canada. We are ready to stand up and say that it's not yet time to move forward and that we must continue negotiating. That is what we did in Da Nang and over the past few weeks, until the Prime Minister announced that we would sign an agreement.