Well, that's a disappointing answer. I hear more people in my riding talk about concern about government abusing time allocation than I do people saying that TPP enabling legislation has to be passed by a certain deadline.
We'll have to agree to disagree on that, but I was hoping to get a commitment here today.
I'm also wondering why it is that workers should feel that they can trust your government when it comes to defending their rights in trade agreements. My understanding is that prior to the election of Donald Trump, you were meeting with representatives from the building trades who were highlighting important problems with chapter 12 of the TPP. The line at that time was that you agreed very much, but geez, it was too bad that the TPP was already negotiated and was a done deal. Then there was an opportunity to renegotiate TPP, and chapter 12 didn't change.
Chapter 12, of course, reproduces a lot of the worst abuses of the temporary foreign worker program. It's going to allow companies to bring workers in under all sorts of categories without any vetting, tracking, or standards assessment by Canadian governments, whether provincial or federal.
I'm wondering why it is workers should feel that they should trust you when you, at one point, or your government, certainly, were admitting the problems with chapter 12, and then completely passed up the opportunity to do anything about them when the negotiations for CPTPP came around.