Mr. Speaker, I too have a couple of petitions concerning the MAI in which the petitioners call upon parliament to reject the current framework of MAI negotiations and instruct the government to seek an entirely different agreement by which the world might achieve a rules based global trading regime that protects workers, the environment and the ability of governments to act in the public interest.
This is almost exactly what the prime minister of France said should be sought when he rejected, on behalf of France, the current negotiations at the OECD. I am sure that these petitioners would want the Canadian government to follow suit, pull out of the negotiations at the OECD and seek an entirely different table at which to settle these difficult issues.