Mr. Speaker, I was interested in the remarks by the hon. member a few minutes ago about the ideological confusion that exists within the Bloc. He gave credit for that confusion to the presence of some Conservatives within the Bloc.
I would certainly remind him that the Bloc was founded by Conservatives. The influence of Conservatives in the Bloc has been persistent throughout, particularly when it comes to questions having to do with globalization, the WTO and the whole question of free trade and the liberalization of trade and investment.
I see now at least one new member of the Bloc who is questioning the whole globalization phenomenon. Hopefully, he will have some influence on his colleagues.
However, I did not rise to question the Bloc because the Bloc was not speaking so I will try not to get diverted. I will ask a question of the member who was actually speaking.
A number of things have happened over the last little while. One in particular is our debate on this agreement which is much after the fact. This is legislation to implement an agreement that the Government of Canada signed over a year ago without parliamentary debate or consultation.
The member's party has been an uncritical advocate of the World Trade Organization and the global phenomena it represents whereby more and more decisions that used to be taken by national governments are now taken in the course of bureaucratic negotiation at the WTO. Does this not give the member some pause for reflection, some second thought about the wisdom of the past? His party set our country on this path with the beginning of the FTA and NAFTA, a direction albeit followed and accelerated by the Liberals in spite of the fact that they had said they would do otherwise when they were running in 1993. However, I do not want to get diverted again and talk about the Liberals.
I want the member to say whether or not he has any concerns in this regard.