Mr. Chairman, the member raised the issue of the MMT case. The whole controversy that the NDP, the Council of Canadians, Maude Barlow and so on keep raising is perhaps one of the biggest frauds which has been perpetrated on the Canadian public and which keeps being repeated in the media.
At the time the Canadian government did not have the legal authority to regulate fuels so it had to ban the trade. It was not toxic. Health Canada said twice that it was not a harm to health.
The NDP and all those who are against trade deals use the case falsely and completely misrepresent it in books and material. We must find out the truth of these cases, read what the issues are and not allow them to be misappropriated for an argument that is hurtful to Canadian life.
We are a trading nation. We can make good deals with one another. That is the way to go about it, not through the restrictions advocated by the socialist left. We must get to the bottom of the MMT story and tell it how it really was.