Mr. Speaker, I always find it interesting to hear the hon. member for Joliette, the new critic for the Bloc, condemning free trade so vigorously when his party, as well as the party we could in a way call the mother party in Quebec City, that is to say the real Parti Quebecois, have always supported free trade.
The hon. member for Joliette rose in this House today but unfortunately ,he did not have a blackboard so we could not understand all his sophisticated arguments.
However, the wealth gap is an issue our government is dealing with. This is of concern to us. The Canadian International Development Agency is making a difference.
Here in Canada, we have social policies to compensate the wealth gap, but I can assure the House that there is absolutely no contradiction. Free trade and international trade raised the revenues of the richest and also of the poorest of Canadians. We must ensure that the latter benefit even more from free trade.