Mr. Chairman, I would remind the hon. member that Mexico is now a NAFTA country and does not come under the GPT. It is under the North American Free Trade Agreement. Again let me stress that the GPT is only a minor part of our trade relationships. It is a minor part of our total foreign relationship with any country. Our foreign relationships with the developing countries are important through our CIDA grants, through our foreign missions and various groups. It is much more important to have close foreign relationships pursued there rather than through a GPT.
Only after all those other things have been done would the GPT be included with a major change. It could very easily be included. The legislation allows the changes to be made very quickly. It would not be effective to make a GPT change alone and say that is all we are going to do. We would want to do a lot of other things with it and there would be a lot of other questions.
I would suggest to the hon. member that the GPT at this level is low on our list of things in our total foreign relationships with any of the developing countries.