I guess I would respectfully disagree with your own self-characterization. The NDP was the party that introduced in Parliament a “made in Canada” bill, which would have created responses by other countries we had signed treaties with to close off their own markets to Canadian products. So the protectionism offered by the NDP would actually have cost jobs and markets. It's like the nickel sector. No one in the world believes that if we close off markets to our nickel, Canadians can buy enough nickel to support what is mined in Sudbury. We have to trade with the world.
That's something you say rhetorically you agree with, but your actions in Parliament are very different.