Mr. Speaker, I too have a great many petitions to present concerning the multilateral agreement on investment.
This is an agreement that was to be concluded in October but was not. A great many Canadians are happy about that. However, they want the government to go further than simply not arriving at an agreement in October. They want parliament to reject the current framework of the MAI negotiations. They want the government to seek an entirely different agreement by which the world might achieve a rules based global trading regime but one that protects workers, the environment and the ability of governments to act in the public interest.
I have many such petitions rolling in from all across the country. It shows that Canadians are urging the government to take a more critical attitude toward the current globalization model and seek a different way of forming a global community, that is to say, forming a global community and not just a global marketplace.