Mr. Speaker, I thank the member very much for his intelligent question. Clearly trade agreements take some time to evolve. The way we do that is through compromise and conciliation.
The role that the government has now taken, as the member suggests, to enter into a pre-consultation process to try to get some agreement on how it can move forward is the only intelligent way to deal with the distortion issues the Reform Party talks about. Creating a regime of new tariff laws within Canada is not the way to create that conciliatory process.