Mr. Speaker, I have a number of petitions here concerning the MAI, which we all know is dead. Nevertheless these petitioners would want to note, as they do in their petitions, that the government should 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, instead of looking for other venues such as the World Trade Organization or the FTAA to replicate NAFTA.
The government should be rethinking NAFTA and particularly those elements of it that the rest of the industrialized world was so reluctant to adopt. Why should Canada be one of the few nations in the world to be exposed to such unacceptable provisions?