Mr. Speaker, some have expressed the view that Canada really has no choice but to respond favourably to American requests on Iraq, given the significant integration of our economy with the U.S. that has taken place since free trade. Indeed the Liberals, pathetically, now seem to accept and even defend the very restrictions on Canadian policy they once joined with the NDP in warning against.
Under the Liberals, Canada has become a country of no choices. Unlike the hope held out by the alternative federal budget and other proposals for change, the Liberals' Canada is a country not able to freely choose its own future. If it is not the Americans it is the money lenders and bond holders or NAFTA or the WTO, and soon it will be the MAI.
Under the Liberals, globalization is an ever tightening but apparently welcome vice that constricts our ability to be ourselves.
For the NDP, globalization must become the opportunity for a truly global community in which Canadian values proliferate rather than are exterminated. We must create a global economy that is not just a marketplace designed for the profit strategies of multinational corporations.