Mr. Speaker, earlier today, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and International Trade announced that, this fall, the federal government will be introducing a bill to amend the Foreign Extraterritorial Measures Act, with a view to counteracting the effects of the American Helms-Burton bill with its extraterritorial effects.
Faced with this unacceptable legislation that has been objected to on many occasions by Canada and a large part of the international community, how can the Minister for International Trade turn his back on the urgency of the situation and defer until fall the planned amendments to the Canadian Foreign Extraterritorial Measures Act?