Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Unfortunately, I am not convinced of the importance of this agreement. And yet the Bloc Québécois is in favour of trade and supports free trade agreements. We firmly believe that they can contribute to the enrichment of communities. The present economic crisis shows that a market economy can only works properly if it is properly controlled. That has been clearly shown on the political and ethical levels.
Instead of negotiating agreements in a piecemeal fashion, why not focus our efforts by working within the WCO in order to come up with a structure or a framework that could ensure that we have appropriate free trade agreements, with the means to verify what is happening in countries such as Peru? Why not work toward multilateral agreements, rather than focusing on single agreements, on a case by case basis?