I think it's probably appropriate that my colleague just asked that question, because I think there are grave implications, in particular in my riding of Essex, where we have a hub of manufacturing in auto manufacturing. In terms of the 58,000 jobs projected to be lost in Canada under the Tufts University study economic model, 12,000 of those would occur in southwestern Ontario. It has massive implications for average Canadians and working Canadians, to be quite honest.
We hear that you feel that this would maintain the jobs here in Canada and, of course, it's hard to see how a Canadian business would be disadvantaged in the TPP, but we've had others present here and explain to us how Canadians would be disadvantaged in the TPP. While businesses may be a beneficiary of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, average middle-class Canadians and lower-income Canadians would actually end up having to pay more for pharmaceutical drugs. There would be implications for them.
I did read one of your articles, Mr. Sookman, in which you said, “The costs of being left behind could be staggering for Canada in the long term.” I'm wondering what economic modelling you're basing that on.