I am very happy to hear of the government's ongoing commitment to maintaining the Good Friday Agreement.
I guess what I'm wondering, and members of the committee may know....
New Democrats voted against CETA. There were substantive issues with the deal, but there was also the fact that we didn't think it was advisable to rush through ratification of CETA when the Brexit question was pending because we thought that the ground might shift considerably.
I'm wondering how it is that we go about signing agreements in the context of such radical uncertainty. Depending on how things get resolved between the U.K. and the EU, do you not think that could have a material impact on the terms and conditions under which Canada may want to trade with the United Kingdom? Do you not think that on problems like the border question, Canada might be able to be more effective in, for instance, coming to a solution that maintains that Good Friday Agreement, if we had a better sense of where things were going between the EU and the U.K. before concluding an agreement with them?