Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you for being here today.
I want to start out by saying that Mr. Shory talked about any trade agreement that the Conservatives have negotiated as being to the net benefit of Canada. But the facts are pretty clear in the last seven years, that when the Liberals were in power we had a trade surplus, and now we have the largest trade current account deficit under this government.
Having said that, I'm going to come back to you, Mr. Ghuman—