I think we have a tremendous opportunity as a nation to demonstrate real leadership on this important front of human rights and trade. It's not that we, as a nation, want to or should in any way turn away from trade. But we should absolutely be turning away to trade that does the best possible job of protecting human rights by carrying out a human rights impact assessment and demonstrating to the world that that's the kind of trade we believe in and that's the kind of trade policy we're going to stand for. That's the kind of Canada I would like to see.
On November 26th, 2009. See this statement in context.