I think when you talk about renegotiating a trade deal or going back to the table, you have to actually look at what the problems are with it now, some of which I've outlined here. Ultimately, in Canada and around the world, we're not an island unto ourselves. That's why we trade. However, there is different thinking about trade now in the world. It would be incumbent on Canada, as I think our minister is trying to do, to have a bold and new conversation about what trade looks like and what trade agreements look like.
There are so many flaws in this agreement that it would take a lot of fixing. Yes, there will be, I think, 3% of new markets opened up in terms of who we already trade with at the moment, but we already trade with 97% of the countries included in the TPP. It's ridiculous that we're thinking about giving away so much, particularly with auto jobs and potentially forestry jobs and a lot of other rural jobs in Atlantic Canada. There are just too many losses, I think, and very, very few benefits if any at all.
Not to go on too much, but look at all of the studies done, and not just studies by left-wing or progressive economists. Even the C.D. Howe Institute has done a study that basically has said that this deal is a wash. There are no true benefits to it and—