The model that guided our FTA agenda for a very long time was a comprehensive negotiating model that we, at least in the negotiating team, referred to as the NAFTA model, because NAFTA was the first agreement that really covered the full sweep of issues that ended up forming a part of our standard model. We deployed that model very successfully for a very long period of time. The NAFTA was concluded in 1994. I would say that the model informed our starting position for discussions almost up until the present day.
However, we have, to a significant degree, exhausted the partners who have a level of ambition to be willing to contemplate the NAFTA model, so while we may be able to persuade some of these partners who are a bit more nervous and a bit more reticent to pursue a model with that much ambition and to consider it, it is a longer negotiating exercise than would otherwise be the case. Quite frankly, some markets that are of importance to Canadian stakeholders are not prepared to contemplate that level of ambition in their trade negotiations.
