We are not saying we'd pull back from a trade economy. Indeed, the minister herself is saying that we want to change how we do trade in Canada. We are a big supporter of trade. A lot of our members get their jobs through trade.
You do have to balance risks and benefits. While a smaller industry—no offence, guys—may benefit a little bit, there are going to be very negative impacts on a lot of larger industries.
I mentioned forestry earlier. A lot of our members in Atlantic Canada work in the forestry sector. There was a side letter signed under the TPP that deals with forest products and the export of raw logs. This is a big issue, obviously, in B.C. They've made an agreement that it is going to be advanced, and that these rules on raw exports are going to be rewritten or renegotiated in five years. This is a big concern when we have a lot of members who work in secondary processing of logs.
As a country, we have to consider this. If these trade agreements don't allow us to have secondary jobs in processing and it's just a matter of sending our raw products to other countries, whether it's in forestry or fisheries, is that really a benefit to Canada, or is it a benefit to some company that's going to have a bigger bottom line at the end of the day?