Mr. Speaker, I am afraid to ask what will continue.
The government does not seem to understand international diplomacy. When it should stand up to the Americans, as in the P.E.I. potato dispute, it chooses instead to tell our own farmers that it is too bad and that they should grow something else.
In the early critical days of negotiations over the softwood lumber issue, when the idea of a special envoy is up in the air and billions of dollars are at stake, the Prime Minister recklessly wades into this thing again and smacks the president of the United States with some remarks.
Yesterday a White House official said “If they prefer a bad relationship between Canada and the U.S., they can have a bad relationship”.
What is the government planning to do to repair this damage?