Thanks, Mr. Chair.
Again, we're looking for co-operation with the Liberal Party to help them get this through fast, but we're not seeing it, so I guess I have to clear the record up on what was said in the past, and what's done for.
I can remember when I chaired the committee. We went around and had meeting after meeting. In fact, we have some witnesses in the audience here who probably testified four times in front of our committee by the time you added all the consultations in.
For him to say that they weren't properly consulted.... The reality is that their consultation was actually a stalling tactic to not ratify the existing agreement. When the U.S. pulled out, they didn't think that they wanted to do anything. It wasn't until there was pressure from other countries to come back to the table that we came back to the table. Then they had to put their own twist on it, so they called it a progressive trade agreement, and they threw all these progressive things at it, which I understand you took to the table, and you tried very hard to sell those progressive agreements.
What was the reaction of the people who you tried to sell them to?