I was with Prime Minister Harper and Minister Fast in Cali when the negotiations there were ongoing. I remember us talking afterwards and being just so impressed with how the leaders were driving the agenda and how they were setting the stage to make this happen. It wasn't the bureaucrats; it was actually the leaders sitting around the table saying, “We need to do this for our people.”
The other thing that impressed me, compared with what we're seeing in NAFTA today, is that you didn't look at it as, “What can I get out of the agreement?” It was, “What can we do together to make our region, our bloc, stronger?” I think that's such an impressive goal, because it will help your people in each of your countries. It will take your strengths and magnify them by four. I know that I wished at the time that we could have joined on and been the fifth player, but there were some other issues there. I really look forward to us actually getting closer now as we move forward.
The other thing I always say is that a trade agreement should always be fluid. It should always be progressing and moving forward. This definitely will do that here for Canada and for the Pacific Alliance countries.
My question is with regard to MILA and the TSX. How do you see these two functions working together? I know that you brought your exchanges together in the Pacific Alliance countries, and I'm kind of curious to know how that's going. The TSX is the mining venture. All the mining capital is raised in the TSX. It's distributed around the world. A lot of it comes into your country. How do you see that coming together, being stronger, and working for the region if we move forward?