Mr. Speaker, the haranguing continues with Canada and the United States over trade disputes on everything from beer to softwood lumber. Sometimes it reaches the level of near harassment.
The minister of trade in the last government was correct when he said in the House one day: "It is too bad that we could not have agreed on a definition of what a subsidy is". This government should take a much needed initiative and call a meeting of trade reps of Canada, United States and Mexico and arrive at a definition of subsidy before things further disintegrate.