As we were discussing a little earlier, a good place to start is the letter of understanding between the NDP opposition caucus and the government. This speaks to the goals that you're just outlining. I think a good place to start is that Canadians should have as much access to these kinds of discussions as Americans and Mexicans do. The process in Congress and in the Mexican congress are more formal, more transparent, have more stops in them, more requirement for government to explain what's going on than we have in Canada.
Your colleague the honourable Daniel Blaikie, I think, has underlined these very effectively. Now we have to think about how to enshrine that in the rules, so the next time Parliament deals with these kinds of issues, you don't have to use the kind of leverage that's available in a minority Parliament to force it.
This is a requirement, I think, for the government to lay out what its goals are in the negotiations, to give stakeholders an opportunity to comment on them before the negotiations start, for the government to give progress reports on what's happening, for stakeholders to be able to give feedback and then for the matter to be assessed and for the ultimate result to be benchmarked against the results, before Parliament makes its decision. That's what Americans have and Mexicans have and what Canadians should have, too.