Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Finance. It concerns the fact that we have heard a lot last week and this week surrounding the back to work legislation about the national interest.
Given the fact that we now glorify an international economic order in which notions of national interest are seen to be romantic, why do we bring the full force of law to bear on workers who are seen to be not acting in the national interest, or so the argument goes, when we do not take any legislative action either nationally or internationally with respect to currency traders, money changers, multinational corporations or others that act against the national interest?
Given the sort of moral anarchy that reigns in the world today, will the Minister of Finance and the Canadian government, with respect to the G-7 summit, be taking some leadership in bringing in a new Bretton Woods agreement for the 21st century?