Well, Mr. Chair, we've been right. We were right on the softwood sellout: tens of thousands of jobs lost. We were right that the iron and steel components of Buy America would go through U.S. Congress. We've been right all along: no action in the automotive sector. So we can have a debate, but I think it's very clear that when we talk about job loss concerns, the NDP has been right on the money. It's the Conservatives who have had the rosy thinking.
The reality is that no contracts have been awarded in the so-called economic stimulus package for the shipbuilding industry. We also have the SFF. Now, within 10 months nearly half that fund, which is supposed to go over a three-year period, has been effectively subscribed. The shipbuilding industry has been calling for an increase in the SFF. They've been calling for ACCA, as Mr. Savage and Mr. Cardin both referenced, the ACCA and SFF being used in tandem. The shipbuilding industry has also been calling for a portfolio management contracting system just to avoid that boom-and-bust syndrome.
My question to you is this. Why aren't these things moving forward, when very clearly the shipbuilding industry is concerned about the impacts of EFTA unless there is a carve-out?