Thank you.
I will be voting against it. With respect to some of the points I had raised earlier, in 2005 there were few companies, less than 1% of the Canadian apparel industry, that actually approached the government and asked it to proceed with this process. That was in 2005, less than 1%. My question was, have they done it since? I got the answer back, no, they haven't. So I would want to hear from the industry before we embark down this path. If they haven't asked the government since then and there's been no request, then why are we proceeding with them? I'd like to speak with the industry, as Mr. Eyking has said. I'd also like to speak with department officials, before we make any decisions on voting on this.
I did raise a question today, but unfortunately we couldn't get an answer. We saw that there was widespread disruption in the EU with proceeding with this process. I want to know what the possible disruption could be here in Canada for the industry before we make a decision. I think it would be irresponsible for us to just simply vote in favour of this without having these questions answered.
So we will not be supporting it. Thank you.