Mr. Speaker, quite clearly as New Democrats we have said, as I indicated in my closing comments, that we reject the model in NAFTA. We reject the model in the proposed free trade of the Americas agreement. We have certainly voiced deep concerns about the model in APEC.
I spoke out strongly, as did my colleagues, on that model. We voiced those concerns in the context of APEC. We have certainly raised serious concerns about human rights and respect for the environment, issues like the sale of Candu reactors to China, concerns around the Three Gorges Dam and a number of other similar grave concerns about human rights violations in the context of religious freedom, whether it be Falun Dafa or other serious abuses of human rights. Certainly we have spoken out on those issues.
I might say that we are waiting for members of the Canadian Alliance to take a strong and forceful stand with respect to grave human rights violations in this hemisphere. I was astonished to hear the member for the riding of Esquimalt—Juan de Fuca speaking of Colombia and defending the United States Plan Colombia, saying that as a member of parliament he supports the military component of Plan Colombia.
If we want to talk about human rights, I suggest to the hon. member from Coquitlam that he speak with his colleague for Esquimalt—Juan de Fuca and remind him of the concern about respect for human rights in this hemisphere, which is what is being debated in this take note debate this evening.