Mr. Speaker, I want to address some of the issues my colleague has raised.
He suggested that there are no barriers being created to American magazines. Of course that is completely untrue. The fact is that if American magazines want to come here and pursue advertisers, then they have to follow certain Canadian rules. Those are barriers. It does not mean they have unfettered access to come in here. They have to follow the government's regulations. Again they want to micromanage the industry and in doing that they deny Canadian advertisers the ability to advertise with whomever they want without facing a penalty.
The member mentioned the WTO and whether or not we would have to give national treatment to foreign magazines coming into Canada. There is a long established principle of reciprocity under free trade agreements. It is not beyond the pale that this would be the case. The Americans would pursue this under the WTO and ask for reciprocity and the same sort of dealing for their publications as are given to Canadian publications. I think the member is talking through his hat.
My friend across the way said that the member for Selkirk—Interlake said that we were Americans. He was talking about all of us being from the Americas, North Americans. Although my friend is trying to push the anti-American hot button, it is not going to work.
I simply want to make the case that I argued for limited government, something the member's party believed in some time ago when Canada was a country that was growing and was a lot more prosperous than it is today. The member should be ashamed that he abandoned that.