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"We've made it plain that our mandate from the leaders was to consider everything, including
a comprehensive agreement. I think everyone understands we certainly could reap the largest
benefit by having a comprehensive agreement, but our mandate was equally to be honest in
assessing what some of the challenges are to get there. This is spectacularly the most
explosive and mature commercial investment relationship in the world. With that maturity
comes the ability to be honest with one another and recognize there have been reasons we haven't
been able to do that before. In so, what we have expressed is as we go about exploring
how we can further create economic growth and jobs, but do it in the timeframe that
our leaders have challenged us to do."