Ultimately, it's using our leverage. We need to be strategic in terms of the sequence in which we negotiate things. I think that by putting the U.K. accession ahead of the U.K. bilateral agreements, we lost that leverage. We could have said, “No, we're not going to move that forward until we address these things. We're not going to repeat the same mistakes we made in CETA.” I think that would have resulted in a more advantageous outcome for us. That's on its track, and now we have to fix it in the bilateral agreement. Whatever tools parliamentarians have to help us do that would be very beneficial to our sector.
On May 4th, 2023. See this statement in context.