It just seems to me that we're not doing a very good job as a country in banning these products. We've had a single shipment banned. We import about 100 billion dollars' worth of products a year from China, and we've only banned one shipment.
If you look at the United States data, about nine billion dollars' worth of cotton was imported annually from China into the United States, and about 10 billion dollars' worth of tomatoes on a pro rata basis. That means that we are importing roughly two billion dollars' worth of tomato and cotton products annually from China into Canada, particularly from Xinjiang. The fact that only one shipment out of several billion dollars' worth of products has been banned seems to me to lead to the conclusion that we're not doing a good job on upholding our treaty obligations under the CUSMA.
The other thing I'll add to this is that, in the last year, dozens of shipments have been blocked by U.S. customs and border officials, and that's based on the fact that they were products that had been tied to forced and coerced Uighur labour. Dozens of shipments have been banned, but we've only banned one.
It seems to me that we are not, as a country, doing a very good job. What I want to know from officials is whether it is a problem in the design of the measures that were announced last January by Minister Champagne or if it is a problem with the enforcement of the measures announced last January. Where is the problem here? It's now been 14 months since the measures were announced. Is it the design of the measures or the enforcement? I'd like to know so that our committee can do our work here and advise the House as to what should happen to improve the situation.