I know I am inconspicuous, Mr. Speaker. I will just have to eat more. I will have to do something about that at lunch.
My question is for the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Trade, who I know is dying to be asked a question. What is the government's position going into negotiations in Seattle?
Everyone knows that Canada has now had its ability to legislate in the area of environment challenged by chapter 11 of the NAFTA. We have worries on the water front and on a number of other fronts.
Why does the government persist on going into these negotiations without asking, that whatever agreements it is a part of that there be no more chapter 11 investor state dispute mechanisms and, on top of that, that it seek to get rid of that in the NAFTA?