I think it's interesting. I was recently speaking with a Quebec company that actually sources their fabric in China and produces finished products in Canada that are then exported to the United States.
We have to be careful when we talk about safeguard measures. They could have some unintended consequences.
Unfortunately, the textile and apparel sector is not a sector on which I can claim to have a lot of expertise and knowledge.
At the proceedings that were held here in October, I noticed there was reference to the wine industry and the furniture industry in Canada. Those industries were able to adjust and in fact even thrived as a result of the competition that came with free trade and, in the wine industry, the decisions that were made at the GATT and at the WTO back in the 1980s and early 1990s.
I think we have to be careful in terms of how we go about protecting our industries. Rather than trying to protect them, shouldn't we help those industries adjust to this competition?