I completely agree with you.
The question is, what are the possible scenarios? You as policy-makers quite rightly look at that. It's not just whether we like the new agreement better or whether we like it less than the current agreement. The question is what happens if you don't go along with this agreement that you've been negotiating for the last year. What does the United States do then? What does Mexico do?
You're right that the current situation is quite volatile. You can't underestimate the current occupant of the Oval Office in retaliation, in self-inflicted wounds in the United States, with the purpose of gaining leverage or punishing our partners and our allies.
It's the largest economic relationship in the world, and it hangs in the balance, quite frankly, with this agreement.
From a United States point of view, what the policy-makers look at is this: If we can't get to an agreement with Canada and Mexico, our neighbours and close allies, how are we going to trade with the rest of the world? As goes the U.S. economy, so goes the economy of our friends and neighbours.
We really are interlinked. There is quite a huge stake in our thriving together with this agreement.