at, but i think one has to recognize the amount of influence we have is for marginal change over govr nance in the next year or two. >> please wait for the microphone to arrive. and identify yourself and please keep your question very brief. we don't have very much time left and we would like to maximize the amount of time for discussion. let's start with this gentleman here. >> i have two brief questions. i found it instructive that nobody had mentioned nato. my first question is what do you think the impact of afghanistan is going to be on nato, given that european publics are even more disposed against a war than the majority of america is. and second, about pakistan, what do we do? i think one of the many nuts of the problem is that going back to musharraf when he was chief of staff and president, the pakistanis have always disagreed with our strategy in afghanistan. they have argued from the very beginning consistently it was not going to work so why should they support a strategy they think was go i think to fail and that's been their view collectively for the last five or six years.

serious regional problem throughout our hemisphere that has real impacts, you know, not the kind of govr nance we see maybe in central america and the caribbean, but has a real serious impacts on the health and safety of communities in our country as well. our attempts to fight them should be equally transnational. that's why we work together on these initiatives. [ speaking french ] [ speaking french ] [ speaking french ] >> with respect to the t.p.p., as is true of any process of arriving at a trade agreement, every country that's particip e participating is going to have to make some modifications. that's inherent in the process temperature. because each of our countries have their own idiosyncrasies. certain industries that have in the past been protected, certain practices that may be unique to that country end up creating disadvantages for businesses from other countries. i don't think canada would be unique in that. are there areas where we would like to see changes in practices? of course. i assure you that canada will have some complaints directed at us and every member of the transpa