Mr. Speaker, I have a question for the hon. member. I will preface it with a truism. The truism is that if you do not compete you cannot be competitive.
Accepting that truism, I wonder if the hon. member would comment on whether or not in his opinion various protected industries in Canada have been made more competitive, which has resulted in lower costs and better product to the consumer as a result of restrictive trade processes in the past within Canada, trade barriers within Canada, and whether there is a parallel between interprovincial trade barriers which raise prices and decrease competition and national trade barriers.