Mr. Speaker, it is clear that negotiations with the United States over Bill C-55 are going nowhere. We know the Minister of Canadian Heritage hopes a Liberal appointed majority in the Senate will rubber stamp her bill.
In the meantime the U.S. has stripped Canada of most favoured nation status on defence contracts as the first shot across the bow in a potential trade war. Canadians are wondering why is the Minister for International Trade promoting the heritage minister's narrow agenda instead of standing up and doing his job for 30 million Canadians and $177 billion of exports to the United States?