It's a very interesting question, because when I was in Asia I would say that Canada was almost a bridge between the Pacific and the Atlantic. Very shortly, at the provisional application of CETA, we will have preferential market access to about 1.1 billion consumers, and access to a public procurement market in Europe, which is about $3.3 trillion.
Obviously, to your point, this is being registered around the world. People understand now that Canada, because of its geography, progressive trade agenda, and well-managed economy, is becoming very attractive. These numbers are big.
You start saying to people, whether in the Asia-Pacific or elsewhere in the world, that if they locate in Canada, employ Canadians, and provide services or goods, they will now have access to a very large market in Europe. We have access, obviously, through NAFTA to the U.S. and Mexico, and we are pursuing our trade agenda in the Asia-Pacific. So, Canada is becoming the place of choice.
I have been in different places, and people are saying, just as you did, that locating their business in Canada now makes more sense than ever, as we are becoming this bridge between the Pacific and the Atlantic, and we have, obviously, our very privileged geography of being in North America.
This is something that resonates. I would say, when the committee is travelling.... Those are the types of messages that we need to repeat when we go abroad as Team Canada, because people take note of these numbers. It might sound obvious to us, but when you repeat them, people take notice, and this is to our advantage.