During the years the Conservatives were in power, from 2006 to 2015, Canada signed 10 free trade agreements and 25 agreements on investment. Our research service prepared some statistics. The conclusion is that during that period, our trade balance deteriorated considerably. Exports to partners with whom we signed free trade agreements grew by 1.1%, but increased by 6.8% with those with whom we did not sign agreements.
We cited South Korea as an example earlier. After the agreement was signed, our imports increased by 9% and our exports decreased by 4%.The statistics show that the situation did not improve after the agreements were signed, but got worse. You ask what will happen if Canada does not get on board with the TPP. My answer would be that here we have 35 agreements that did not produce the expected results.