It was these changes we made to the investment dispute settlement process that unblocked the agreement. As a result of these changes that we made—and I want to thank Steve Verheul, with whom I worked on them very closely—we were able to move the agreement forward, finalize the legal scrub on February 29, and move the agreement through the European system.
Those changes were also absolutely central in securing support of key European countries, particularly France and Germany. France and Germany had been hesitant, even critical, of the agreement prior to those changes. Right after we made those changes, I travelled to Brussels, Berlin, and Paris. There we had public announcements of support for the agreement from Germany and France. That's really what got it going.