Okay.
Canadians operate in the Canadian economy and succeed in the Canadian economy because of a variety of factors. We invest here. We work here. We get ourselves educated here. We do business here. There are a variety of factors that have a lot to do with this being a country in which we want to live, grow and invest, and which we want to develop economically and support. I don't think there's anything in a trade agreement that's ever going to change that. It's not going to make Canadians all of a sudden want to move to Vietnam, China, the United States, or anywhere else.
Trade agreements are a tool that is designed to respond to the concrete needs, requests, and input that we get from Canadian businesses around what it is that makes it more difficult, more expensive, more unpredictable for them to go out into the world and do internationally what they do very well here.
It's not designed to change what they do, and it's not a request from them to provide an environment where they would get up and leave Canada. It's quite the contrary. It's saying, “Look, we're doing things well here. We have a highly educated, highly motivated, highly sophisticated society that's doing really well. We just want to do more and we want to open ourselves to the global economy.” That's the purpose.
I think one always has to remember that we're not doing this in a vacuum. We are doing this in response to specific input that we get from those Canadians we are trying to help. As Ms. Bincoletto was saying the other day, fundamentally, her job is to try and get them out there taking advantage of these opportunities. We listen to what it is they say isn't working that well for them and we try and respond to that.
As I said, it's very much a first baby step. It's just setting the foundations. There's so much more that has to be done to enable our businesses to really take advantage of these....