Mr. Speaker, in speaking to folks involved in the industry and trying to figure out the real problems behind this sort of dispute, a message that comes back to me is that the NAFTA really is not a free trade agreement. It is not working. The dispute settlement mechanism contained in it is not an effective mechanism for dealing with disputes, and so on.
That being the case, I pose a question to my colleague on this front. Is the government considering opening up the whole North American Free Trade Agreement and renegotiating it so we can get a true free trade agreement with some effective mechanisms?