Mr. Speaker, my question is directed to the Deputy Prime Minister. In their majority report on foreign policy, Liberal members and senators refer to Canada's principal trading partner as a problem. After being opposed to the free trade agreement with the United States and ultimately rallying behind NAFTA, they now wonder whether it would not be advisable to simply abolish all trade commissioner posts in the United States and Mexico.
Does the government intend to reject the Liberal majority's recommendation to abolish the posts of trade commissioners, since it knows perfectly well that this might deprive Quebec and Canadian businesses of major benefits arising from the free trade agreement with the United States and Mexico?