Mr. Speaker, I listened with great interest to what my colleague from the Bloc said. He has been quoting these examples from Europe.
It seems to me that on this side of the Atlantic the better example at the moment for the extension of the U.S. currency is the commonwealth of Puerto Rico. For 107 years Puerto Rico has had the U.S. dollar but nothing else. It is simply a source of cheap labour and occasionally a source of ball players for the United States.
In the western hemisphere, has my colleague studied the case of Puerto Rico in the last 100 years?