Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thanks again, Mr. Verheul.
At the beginning of the year, there was a lot of pressure for you to sign this agreement. Many Canadians didn't realize that you had been working on this for a while and asked what the holdup was. At one point you had a five-week span at the table.
Maybe you could enlighten Canadians and our trade committee on how the process evolved to the point it did. A good agreement is when both people leave the table happy, and it appears that way from the reports we're hearing from both sides. Maybe you could share a little bit about that, as well as some of the biggest challenges you encountered during the couple of years of your life that you invested in this agreement.