The Indo-Pacific is incredibly important for the same reasons Dennis outlined. One of the biggest things for us in that region is to present to all of those potential markets, the developing markets, how to model behaviour around dealing with trade: making sure it's predictable, making sure there are no irritants and making sure it's open and free.
One of the things we absolutely need, as we move into those markets, is to ensure that what we're modelling in Bill C-282, particularly around how to protect a sector through legislation, will not be damaging for us as we try to achieve our objectives in that region. If we're taking things off the table, and it doesn't matter what sector it is or what protection of the sector we're doing, it means we will never be able to have commercially viable deals with any country. In fact, we won't be able to speak to countries around their regulatory system about anything, because they will simply say to us, “Well, you're protecting a sector. We're going to do it, but we're going to do it in a different way with a non-tariff trade barrier or some kind of SPS issue.”
We won't have the standing, as Canada, if we're demonstrating a behaviour where we're legislation a protection for a sector, a region or any kind of issue that we deem should be protected.