From our perspective, when we had these conversations we were being realists about what we could achieve and where we were in the pecking order of all these countries that wanted to sign a deal with the U.K. Our push was to keep it simple and get a deal that protected what we have right now with CETA. As long as that was respected, if you have all the time to be aspirational and achieve all these great things...but I don't know what more we could do, other than to fix the issues that my fellow panellists have raised. It was more to keep market access. That's always our primary focus.
On November 27th, 2020. See this statement in context.