Mr. Speaker, after hearing a few of the speeches by Reform Party members I concluded that we are in agreement about the need for an agreement.
However there is one exception. My colleagues in the Reform Party want the government to abandon its fight on behalf of cultural industries. I want to say for the record that we will not abandon that fight.
My colleague is trying to allude to the fact that certain Canadian laws will be affected if we were to sign the multilateral agreement. I want to correct the record. No Canadian laws will be affected as a result of that. Every Canadian law, whether provincial or federal, will continue to be in full force after the signing of the multilateral agreement.
I wanted to have straight that signing the agreement will not cripple the hands of the Canadian government from enacting special laws in Canada.
Would the hon. member stand and say that he commends what our Canadian negotiators are doing at the table?