Mr. Speaker, let me begin by saying that I value the opinions of Professor Howard Mann. He is an extremely brilliant individual who has worked with our committee.
Having said that, I wish, once and for all, we would tell Canadians the truth about the Ethyl Corporation case and how it arose. It arose as a result of a challenge by the Alberta government that dealt with the interprovincial restriction on trade. It was only when that interprovincial matter was ruled upon in favour of Alberta that we chose to settle before the matter ever reached arbitration. This is not a case where the arbitration panel found against it. It was settled before it ever reached arbitration.
When we look at the number of arbitration cases we see only three cases. Last week we won another case, the Pope & Talbot case, which was the only pending case after the NAFTA five year review was disclosed.