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I think we're right in adopting a broad-based approach
and we should try to have as broad coverage of the final agreement as possible,
and have as few reservations and limitations going into the negotiations as possible.
And I think, for instance, it's a good sign that Canada has already signed
an air services agreement with the European Union and indicated that it wants, genuinely,
to liberalize air services between Canada and the EU.
Certainly we should focus on any areas where there
are problems in trade and goods and try to remove those barriers.
The real test, I think, of success -since we have pretty broad coverage of trade in goods already
– will be in trade in services. Part of that, I think,
should be dealt with by way of regulatory cooperation in a variety of areas.
That should include, I think, much greater efforts
to work jointly on competition issues as well as more specific service areas.
But we ought to really open up our markets reciprocally in fields like aviation,
fields like services and fields such as telecommunications, for instance.
A good dose of competition from the Europeans, I think, would be very valuable.
Services, I think, really are, probably, the key to the negotiation.
Mobility of people, as much as possible, we should really try to work on this.
Quebec has already taken the lead here with France.
And we should really continue to work on making it easy so that young people,
particularly, who want to go to live and work in Europe for some period
of their lives should be able to do so from Canada, and vice versa.
Europeans who want to come and bring their enthusiasm
and dynamism to Canada should be free to do so.