Mr. Speaker, this is something that should be made clearer to the Americans than it obviously has been already.
I want to ask a question of the Deputy Prime Minister. Yesterday the Prime Minister said that this was the first time that Americans had recognized our right to protect our culture. Is it not also the case, or at least has the Prime Minister not claimed in the past when he signed NAFTA and the WTO that Canadians had a right to protect their own culture?
The Americans presumably recognized this in the NAFTA and the WTO, so why is the Prime Minister making this specious claim that there is something new about this, or was it not the case that cultural protection—