Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Transport.
On page 25 of the red book under the heading "securing new markets" it states Canada must resist Washington's hub and spoke approach to trade by providing political, demographic and economic counterweights to the United States.
Given those ideals, how did the government come to abandon that policy last Friday when it decided to make CN Rail shares available to U.S. interests which will inevitably pull Canadian export products through its economy and to its benefit?