Not on the evidence; there's a kind of strange assumption that trade equals trade deals, as if somehow, before we had trade deals, there was no international trade. Well, there was, obviously. The average tariff barrier between us and the European Union, before we got into CETA, was 2%. A 2% tariff barrier on average will not prevent trade, and it didn't.
I remember the European Commission visitors were here, insisting on the absolute necessity of CETA. I went through the list of things that we can buy now in Canada, such as Volvos and European chocolate, and I asked them what exactly was missing from this list that would be exported to Canada once we got CETA. There was a blank look. They couldn't think of one.
The idea that trade equals trade deals has never been true, and it isn't true now. Studies by Jim Stanford, for example, show that in many places, our increase in trade was bigger with countries that didn't have trade deals than it was with countries that did. So there may be some linear increase in trade with the European Union in a particular area. Was that all caused by CETA or was it caused by something else? Somebody would have to take a look at that. It isn't necessarily the case that simply CETA caused all of that increase when in many other countries' cases that wasn't the end result.