Mr. David O'Sullivan:

I do not think renegotiation is easy under any circumstances. It may be possible if down the road, when CETA has entered into force and ratified and there is a change in the international legal environment for how one deals with these issues, it may be perfectly possible to suggest that requires an adjustment of the current legal text.

The difficulty of addressing it now in the absence of clarity on that is that it becomes a rather open-ended renegotiation. It is not with a specific objective in mind of adjusting the text to take account of a changed environment. One is basically saying, We do not like this; we would like to replace it with something else." We would have to then describe what that would be and we would need the 27 member states all to agree as to what that would be. We would then have to talk to the Canadians. I reiterate that once one starts a renegotiation of a chapter in a treaty it is not self-evident that one can limit that renegotiation only to the chapter that one or other member states does not like or has some difficulties with. So that is the challenge I would see.