[Pierre]

Originally Posted by Damien

The same deal with Japan would make sense since a lot of the work has been done and can be reused. I did hear (also on Twitter) that we're less stringy about people coming here to work temporarily in services than the EU deal.

Whether it's broadly along the same lines as the EU deal is neither here nor there. Why wouldn't you use an existing document where much of the blurb has already been done. What we now have is the freedom to tweak such agreements to the mutual benefit of both parties on certain items. Which we can do quickly and with utility, and not have to take into consideration or have agreement from umpteen other nations.