I guess, at the end of the day, Ms. Buck, this is not like a trade agreement. This is an alliance of some concept in which we would be a partner. Many of these countries, when I look at them, have far, far different labour standards, labour rates, health and safety regs than Canada does. Their environmental standards are completely different. Are we in any way looking at lowering our standards to meet theirs, or is this just...? I still haven't got my head around quite what this is, to be honest with you.
For the life of me, I can't understand why the Government of Canada would be sending people to meetings on some nebulous concept that we've never heard of until three weeks ago, when we've got other really serious issues. This book, which is in many ways fiction, is called the budget. It's outlining some of the concerns we have in our energy sector, with prices discounted 30%. Our manufacturing sector is in decline.
Don't you think those are the areas that we should be looking at? How do we add value in Canada? How do we enhance our manufacturing sector, rather than off into the wilderness at some nebulous meeting where we have no idea what the results are going to be?