Madam Speaker, I listened very attentively to my colleague from the Canadian Alliance speak. He brought forward quite a number of very relative points.
Being a fellow member from British Columbia, I know he is very aware of the situation with the softwood lumber agreement. He hears, as I am sure all British Columbia MPs do, the concerns expressed by our constituents who really question NAFTA and the whole commitment by the Americans to free trade right now, given the ongoing dispute over softwood lumber.
Given the context of his remarks that without reciprocal legislation on the part of the Americans the bill once enacted will have the potential to increase the brain drain or expansion of companies in the United States in competition to Canadian companies, how is he going to communicate this problem to British Columbians in particular, given the problems we see developing with NAFTA?