Mr. Speaker, the reason for negotiating international trade deals like the free trade agreement, NAFTA or GATT should be to tear down trade barriers rather than build them up. Yet access to the American market has decreased for the Canadian sugar industry due to protectionist measures. In jeopardy are some 1,700 Canadian jobs at the present time.
My question is to the Minister for International Trade. What will the government do to protect the jobs in the Canadian sugar industry and to improve Canadian access to American sugar markets?