I think one of our constraints—one of the biggest constraints during this—as we launched the negotiations was the fact that at the beginning, in September 2017 and then moving forward into 2018, the United Kingdom was a member of the European Union so they were not able to engage in a full-scale trade negotiation. The only thing they were able to do was to replicate the CETA, so from our perspective it was very much a transitional agreement. We identified early on that we would like to launch a full-scale bilateral negotiation, but the United Kingdom was not able to do that when we began the process.
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