Mr. Speaker, I understand that the question is about consulting businesses, entrepreneurs and so on. That probably happened to some extent.
As far as the premiers are concerned, I think I did a pretty good job of explaining how the provinces had no input and no say in the matter. Just because somebody gets a call and is asked what they think about a particular topic does not mean that they have veto power and that they can do anything they want.
I gave the example of Wallonia, which has a statutory right in the Belgian constitution. Even if the Belgian parliament were in favour of a particular agreement, if the Walloon parliament does not agree, Belgium cannot move forward with it. That has happened. Actually, I should talk about member regions. I referred to Wallonia in particular because there is an example of this in 2016, if I am not mistaken, in the context of the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, where Wallonia nearly stopped the entire agreement. That is true federalism, where the provinces are involved. Canada is not like that.