Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to the officials for a great compilation of exactly what we've been hearing. I'm sure you kept up to speed on that as well. You've highlighted some of the major concerns we've heard out there from the side that says, “Walk away, it's not a good deal”. I tend to take the other side of that. I think it's a tremendous opportunity for Canada to get into those growing middle-class marketplaces in the Pacific Rim.
I do have some questions, and the chair alluded to the first one on the chief economist's report that there's no GDP gain, and it's only $4.3 billion in the year 2040. That doesn't reflect the cumulative gain year by year. I know there's no specific modelling that can be doing that, but we're hearing from people out there that say it's not enough for all the risk that we're taking. How do you respond to that when we know that there's a gain year in and year out? I know you can't second-guess who's going to take advantage of it and move forward.
The other thing they say in that regard is that we're already 97% tariff free, which is probably true of the commodities we're shipping, but there are a lot of commodities we don't ship because the tariff wall is so high. From that economy side, I see this as a huge boon to Canada. How do you respond to that when it's only $4.3 billion, and we're giving that to dairy farmers?