Professor Lilly, in an article you wrote earlier this summer, you were commenting on your time working in the Harper government on free trade agreements with other allies. You said that Prime Minister Harper “recognized our overreliance on the U.S. and sought new footholds. His team began to pursue trade deals beyond North America, signing early agreements with South Korea, the European Union and countries across the Indo-Pacific. But in the decade since, that momentum has slowed.”
My question is this: Did we miss the boat here in the last decade? Did we not build upon that work of Prime Minister Harper?