Mr. Speaker, certainly the existence of interprovincial trade barriers is a very important issue that must be dealt with. As the hon. member will be aware, the Minister of Industry in conjunction with his provincial counterparts has already taken steps to reduce interprovincial trade barriers. This culminated in an agreement which was signed and agreed to some time last summer.
This is also something that has been very important to many other ministers in government, particularly the Minister of Human Resources Development who for many years has advocated much closer economic links among western provinces to reduce interprovincial barriers.
This will take a continued effort to ensure these barriers are removed in a sensible fashion. We have accomplished a lot already; it is a start. We must continue to ensure that the types of barriers which impede economic growth and negatively impact our international competitiveness are reduced to make companies all across this great country more competitive and more able to fight it out on the world scale. This will in turn have a great and positive economic impact all across the country.