Mr. Speaker, once again the hon. member's knowledge of history and his own party's history is defective. It was a Tory minister of fisheries who happened to come from Newfoundland that responded to the threats of overseas boycotts by cutting out the sealing in Atlantic Canada.
That started the increase in the population to which the hon. member has referred. If he is concerned about people being worried about overseas boycotts, he should speak to Atlantic Canadians, 80% of whose product is exported, who know that $2.2 billion would not be coming into their region were there such a boycott.