Simply, yes, we are unprepared. The reason is that we're tying one arm or two arms behind our back. The Americans have a thousand people available in these ITACs, waiting for them, able to advise on drafts as they go along and to give real, meaningful, committed types of focused information. We gave that up over 20 years ago, and that is not what we need to do to be prepared.
I note that public policy schools across this country, working with the Balsillie school, are trying to create capacity building right now to help give us that, but the government has to take the offer. We can give a handout, but they have to give their hand back if they want to do this. I don't know why we would not be doing that and why we'd walk in with less precise information and capacity. That is exactly the way to failure, and we can't let that happen if we want to succeed in the oncoming negotiations.
