Mr. Speaker, this is part of the big lie, that because we do not like the WTO or the NAFTA we are somehow against trade. Of course we are not against trade. We realize that Canada is a trading nation, and we are in favour of multilateral trade rules that set up regimes that make fair trade possible.
The minister who spoke talked about fair trade. The fact is we do not have fair trade agreements. We have free trade agreements. She said she was critical of certain agreements in the past that did not provide for fair trade. I wish she would have named them because had she done that they probably would have been agreements still in force that her own government signed, like the NAFTA. I notice when she listed particular regimes she did not list the NAFTA.
Someone can be for global trade without having to be for these agreements. It is an intellectually dishonest argument to constantly paint people who do not like the multilateral rules that we have now, which are designed by and for the multinational corporations, as people who do not like or are against trade. We are not against trade. We are for fair trade and not free trade.