Mr. Chairman, I thank the member for his kind words about the contribution Canada made at the Buenos Aires talks on the free trade area of the Americas.
The way in which the Americans are using their dumping laws is absolutely abusive. I said it last week on softwood lumber and I said it before on steel. Americans use the dumping elements of their trade laws in a very punitive and reprehensible manner.
We do not have two or three allies at the WTO. I had the honour to chair the working group on implementation in Seattle. That gave me the opportunity to meet with delegations from differing countries and 135 of them mentioned that the United States dumping rules should be on the table to be negotiated. We cannot have another round of trade negotiations without it because since Seattle many countries have also developed bad dumping practices and are applying them against the United States.
It would give us an opportunity to look at what everyone else is doing on that front. We do not wish to single out one country but wish to look at those countries that have now developed these abusive practices. We must put some order into it. I thank the member for giving me the opportunity to say that this too is an important objective for Canada.