Mr. Speaker, it is not because of that. We agreed to fair trade not free trade. The NDP was very clear about that.
Why do we have people with less income? We have them because in 1989, 1990 and 1992, when the Conservatives were cutting the employment insurance, for example, the Liberals promoted the idea that if they were ever to come to power they would not make those cuts but would restore employment insurance.
Instead, they cut employment insurance to the point where only 35% of Canadians who pay into it can collect employment insurance. We now have poor that we have never seen before, with 800,000 people who do not qualify for employment insurance. The Liberals did that. Approximately 1.4 million children are hungry in our country. The Liberals did that during their term from 1993 to now. They should be ashamed of themselves.
I believe the reason they made the cuts was free trade. They had to answer to the Americans and to the Mexican people. That is what they did to free trade. The free trade we were supposed to get was supposed to bring up the standard of living of those people, not bring down the standards for Canadians. That is what the Liberals have done.
That is why we do not trust what the minister says: because what the Liberals say is not what they do. We cannot trust them. If they want us to trust them, they have to give us the document to read. We are not stupid. We have a responsibility as parliamentarians and we should be able to have the document. It does not belong only to the Minister of Industry or the Minister for International Trade. It belongs not to them but to parliamentarians and Canadians.
We should be able to make our decisions, not just put our faith in the Liberals, who have hurt the country very badly. They have very badly hurt the working people in Canada. That is why we do not trust the Liberals.