Absolutely. Mr. Verheul, I only have five minutes here. With this timeline I am outraged, okay, because in the past, historically, the Canadian government has done a good job of getting these documents out to Canadians. We had the C.D. Howe report. Again, I disagree with the premise of your analysis here. The C.D. Howe report said this is going to be a $10-billion hit compared with what we had before, which is $14 billion Canadian. It works out to about $1,500 per family.
We know that when this government started, there was an agreement in place. Here, I applaud Mr. Verheul. I think he's a genius as far as negotiations are concerned. The original TPP would have had a positive impact, $4.3 billion. Our Prime Minister decided not to sign it because it wasn't progressive enough. It was 14 months before Mr. Trump was even in office, and now we're being asked to rush this through, which is important. Even C.D. Howe said that if we didn't do this deal, it would be a hit to us even worse than this. I think they said $14 billion U.S., or something along those lines.
My comment is, why didn't we know? If this was signed in November 2018, we could quote the Prime Minister saying it's a win-win-win. It's a victory for Canadians. It's a better deal. They knew.
You didn't just start this analysis in December when we asked for it, so was there any direction to you not to provide documents to this committee?
Madame Paquet.