Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister for International Trade.
It has to do with the stated intention of the government to expand NAFTA to include first Chile and perhaps other southern American countries. Recently the government opposed an attempt by the NDP to inject a social dimension into the legislation having to do with the Uruguay round.
I ask the Minister for International Trade whether in the Canadian negotiations leading to the expansion of NAFTA it is the intention of the government to continue to shy away from introducing a social clause or a social dimension into these treaties or whether he could say today that in those negotiations leading to the expansion of NAFTA the government does intend to insist on a social clause, charter, dimension, whatever you want to call it so that we have a truly level playing field in these agreements.