Mr. Speaker, the Canadian government will pursue all its options in defending the Canadian position in the face of U.S. action with which we may disagree.
However I want to make it fundamentally clear that in the process we will not engage in any game of trading off one region of the country against another or one commodity against another or one group of producers against another.
All these are separate and distinct issues. They must be dealt with separately and distinctly on their own merits and we will not trade off the Canadian-