Well, I certainly look forward to following up on this theme at some time, Madam Chair, but I do take your point that another forum or another study might be a more appropriate venue. The issue may come up, though, because as we discuss with other countries, for instance, supply chains for goods that are required in the pandemic context, there may be countries that....
Part of what I'm trying to understand is whether the government's position is that we trade first and ask questions later, or whether it can be a legitimate strategy to say that in order to put pressure on other countries for non-trade-specific types of policies, we withhold trade from Canada.
I'll put the same question without the environmental example. In the instance that we are negotiating some kind of trade provision that is pandemic-related, might it not be a legitimate strategy for the government to see its trade agenda as a way to put pressure on other countries to exhibit certain forms of behaviour regarding things that aren't directly trade issues, as we normally understand them, but that Canada and Canadians nevertheless feel very strongly about?