Our government since 2006 has eliminated $590 million worth of tariffs. Under the proposed Canada-EU agreement, it will eliminate another $750 million in tariffs.
We import roughly 7,400 items. Here, Mr. Moffatt, just as a point of clarification, you had mentioned earlier that the GPT will affect thousands and thousands of products. That's not in fact true. The GPT will affect 1,200 imported products. So it's important just to be clear on that.
Your comments on cross-border shopping also intrigued me a little bit. When the Canadian dollar was roughly 67¢, 68¢, 69¢, there was a flood of Americans coming into Canada to shop at the expense of their own border towns in U.S. states. I didn't hear any complaints from the Canadian retail association then, nor from people such as you, that we should somehow put an end to that because it was not fair. This is just the normal kind of ebb and flow of the marketplace. I would be in favour of freer markets as opposed to restricted markets, and I suspect you would be the same.
I want to ask you also, Mr. Moffatt, have you ever been a candidate for the Green Party of Canada?