The United States has withdrawn from the TPP and is not participating. When we're talking about this with the U.S. administration, we usually at that point say, “Well, I understand, but what's the strategy, then?” By the year 2022, two-thirds of the world's middle-class consumers will be in Asia. They have rising purchasing power, they love American goods, and yet there are high barriers. If it's not the TPP as a strategy to access those markets, what is it?
As for Canada and whether or not the so-called TPP 11 should proceed, you know, as an American I salute Canada's clear-eyed pursuit of its economic self-interest. The TPP, in our view, as we said loudly and clearly for a long time, as we advocated for it, is a good agreement. Can it be improved? Yes. There are some sectors of the U.S. economy that would have hoped to improve some areas, but it is very clear to us that the Japanese, for instance, want to play a long game with the TPP. They want to see it move forward someday with the United States. I think that's interesting, but for now the United States is going to remain on the sidelines of that conversation.