I think it was poorly negotiated. I think that a lot of these problems could have been dealt with if the previous government, the Harper government, had taken a different approach to negotiations. We know, for example, that during that whole multi-year period when they were negotiating with other TPP nations, there were all sorts of people other than governments behind closed doors with the negotiators. There were as many as 400 corporations and business organizations. There wasn't a single member of civil society there. There wasn't a single representative or spokesperson from a union or the labour movement.
If that had been the case, we could have flagged this early on and wouldn't be facing the prospect of either turning a thumbs-up or thumbs-down to this agreement. This could have been avoided if civil society had been behind those closed doors. They were not, and this is the mess that we have to deal with now.