Mr. Speaker, I am very glad to have heard the remarks from the member from the Bloc. It was a very reasonable and balanced position and there is nothing I could not concur with in his remarks.
I draw special attention to one point regarding our trading with certain countries and the longstanding position of our government making the argument that we have an obligation to carry on trade relationships with some of these countries even though their human rights records are very poor because that will help to elevate the standards of their human rights circumstances. Obviously what we have seen in the APEC summit was that we are harmonizing our human rights standards but we are harmonizing to the lowest common denominator. We are being pulled down to their level of human rights conditions.
I was at the APEC summit, as were the member for Burnaby—Douglas, the member for Vancouver East and the member for Yukon. All of us managed to avoid being pepper sprayed that day but certainly we can speak from personal experience that if this is the type of harmonization that takes place it speaks to the larger issue of the globalization of capital. I would be interested in hearing the member expand on that thought.