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Good afternoon, Mr. Wilson. It is an honour for me to question you today. Unless I am mistaken, it was you, as Minister of Industry, Science and Technology and Minister for International Trade, who negotiated the first free trade agreement between the United States and Canada, an agreement which subsequently became NAFTA. So you are a major architect of the free trade agreement.
Can you explain your recommendation to Prime Minister Harper for a bilateral Canada-US agreement to resolve the softwood lumber issue, when you were yourself behind setting up the free trade agreement?