Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Carlo, thank you for that. We had that little discussion at the beginning of the meeting. I've been saying that exact thing for a year. Mike Froman, the former trade ambassador, has also said that TPP is NAFTA 2.0. If you want to tweak NAFTA, TPP is the vehicle to do it. So you're absolutely right that they didn't just shoot themselves in one foot. They shot both feet by pulling out.
That makes it even more important for Mexico and Canada to link arms, ratify TPP, and move ahead without the Americans. It gives us both some strength dealing with them on NAFTA, as we can point to other trade corridors—Japan especially, the crown jewel. Is Mexico looking at that seriously? At the APEC meetings coming up in Vietnam, we've been pushing the new Liberal government here in Canada to actually ratify TPP. There's nothing in there that should slow us down. Carlo just made my point on that as well.
To the gentleman from Mexico, are you seriously looking at doing that? You have elections coming up next fall. You won't have NAFTA settled by then, but you could certainly have TPP ratified by then.