I heard my colleague, Mr. Cannis, say earlier that we don't want to be on the sidelines being boy scouts per se, and I understand that two wrongs don't make a right, as Mr. Holder's mom from Cape Breton would say. My mother taught me the same thing. It seems to me that if we have evidence that says this is what's happening in Jordanian factories under a free trade agreement, why would we want to be complicit with that?
My sense is that if we can't learn the lesson from what happened, then shouldn't you be pressuring your own government in the U.S. to withdraw it as well and saying to us at the same time that until the Jordanians intend to push for their own laws to be upheld...? We're not asking them to increase their minimum wages, but only to apply their own laws; we're not taking ours and extrapolating them and putting that on top of them. So is it not fair for us to say to you, well, if we hold back—which I believe we should, because the evidence is clear in my mind—should you not also be saying to the U.S. government, like the United Steelworkers, the AFL-CIO in the States, and the social justice groups are, that they should terminate this or at least put it in abeyance until some point at which you can be assured that the Jordanians can actually implement and uphold their own labour law?