I'll tell you this. I've worn many different trade hats in my life, and one of them was also working at the OECD in Paris and watching Canada negotiate there and at the WTO.
I hate to tell you the truth, but for most trading partners Canada is an annoying country to negotiate with, because they already have a hard enough time negotiating with the provinces and the federal government. Every time anyone sits down with Canada and they want to talk about something they want to do, the first thing Canada says is that it's in the provincial jurisdiction. That's the problem. If you add on indigenous communities, I think you'll just make it even more complicated, to be very honest with you. It's hard enough now.
But I definitely think there are creative ways where you could build more consultation mechanisms into it. I just don't know how that would play out and whether that would make it easier or not.
It seems to me the issue here is large corporations on the American side that have an interest in negotiating a certain way, trade laws that work for them and American congressmen and women who are elected every two years—and they answer to their constituents. So I don't see that that force is going to change very quickly.