:49:00
- Yeah.
- You did it as a spoof?
:49:02
- Yeah.
- Yeah. Basically...
:49:06
That's good. We weren't sure
how you would react.
:49:08
We were really hoping you wouldn't be
too offended. We were like, "Oh, no!"
:49:12
Hell, no. That's great.
That's really...
:49:14
I was wondering,
'cause I hadn't seen that guy before,
:49:17
and I did know some of the WTO
External Relations people,
:49:20
and I was thinking, "My God,
they really put up a right one this time."
:49:24
We wanted to talk
to Barry Coates as well
:49:27
because he has a lot of statistics
and information about globalization
:49:32
that we thought would be useful
for the lecture in Australia.
:49:35
All of the WTO agreements bar one
:49:37
are all about restricting
what governments can do.
:49:41
And so, essentially, the whole
trading system is built on the premise
:49:45
that the companies trading internationally,
investing internationally,
:49:50
are going to be preyed upon
by nasty governments.
:49:55
And, really, what we have
:49:57
is an international system
that is entirely the reverse.
:50:00
What's got squeezed out of the system
:50:02
is democracy,
is development, is environment,
:50:05
is the kind of human values
:50:08
which really ought to be the center
of what we're trying to do.
:50:12
We don't live to trade, you know.
:50:15
We live to have decent lives.
:50:18
And that ought to be the goal
of our trade policy,
:50:20
not maximizing trade
or getting rid of any impediments to it.
:50:49
Looks good.
I've got that.
:50:52
Need to get the video...
:50:55
...and we'll be off.
:50:58
Let's see...