Mr. Speaker, my colleague from Acadie—Bathurst most certainly wants to speak about job creation. So, let us talk about job creation, but in a positive way.
With the free trade area of the Americas, we have a powerful neighbour, namely the United States, with whom we are used to trade. It is the country just south of ours. Since the FTAA also includes every South American country, we would have a market of 800 million people. If we take away the 300 million people living in the U.S., we have 500 million more people with whom everyone in Canada can do business in a free trade context.
The benefits are clearly there. In Canada's justice system, common law exists alongside the civil code. Latin American countries usually have civil law. Common law applies in Canada and the U.S. We also have a culture similar to that of Latin American nations.
We should stop looking at the negative side and view in a positive light all the jobs that can be created and the improvement to the quality of life that can be made throughout the Americas. That is what the free trade area of the Americas is all about.