Mr. Speaker, my question is for the trade minister. While police were firing tear gas and plastic bullets last weekend on peaceful demonstrators in Quebec City, inside the summit leaders were celebrating their great democracy clause.
Is it not a fact that this so-called democracy clause makes absolutely no link whatsoever between respect for democracy and access to the FTAA? In fact, the only sanction is exclusion from hemispheric summits. Is it not just window dressing to cover up their failure to deal with human rights, the environment and worker rights?