Good for you. Travel safe.
You and I have a mutual friend in Tim Groser. Tim was the voice of trade out of New Zealand for a decade that I've been around, and a good friend, and he's now the ambassador to the United States.
We had a meeting last spring where we talked about alternatives and the reticence of the Americans to move forward and whether there is any way that we could do a plan B, whereby the other 11 like-minded countries could move forward and get around this six or seven countries with 85%. He seemed to think that there was. I know he's come out publicly in the last little while, trying to help President Obama get this done in the lame-duck session, but other than that he was saying that there's nothing that stops the rest of us like-minded countries from moving ahead.
I was wondering if you had any comments in that regard.