Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for his question. It is true that globalization is a fact. But what is up for grabs is what kind of globalization we are going to have. Are we going to have globalization that is really just a global marketplace with this race to the bottom where governments and societies give up their social and economic values by trading away their labour standards and their environmental regulations in order to attract investment? Or is our form of globalization going to be a global community?
I think it raises the matter of global governance. In spite of what the member for Peace River keeps accusing the NDP of, we have never suggested that we should be isolationists, that we should put up tariff walls or that we should go back to the days of Sir John A. Macdonald. What we have suggested is that if we are going to have a global market we need to have forms of global governance that do for global markets what national governments used to do for national markets. That is the way ahead. We are not looking for a way back, we are looking for a way ahead that creates some form of global social and economic justice, and the MAI is not the way to do it.
The MAI is a replication of the NAFTA at a much larger level. I think that is something that people who were for the NAFTA have to take into account—