Mr. Speaker, I want to begin my comments for the parliamentary secretary by quoting back to him what he said. He said that it was not about Canada.
It is about Canada. It is about British Columbia and every province in the country. Maybe he does not want to stand up and support the workers in the industries that are being hampered by the government's lack of action.
He said that the government has been working since 1996 for some unified position on this. That is good but, in the meantime, if there were a unified position going back to 1996, we may have heard at least one possible solution to the bridging period of time that we are in now. He knows that it will be 18 months to 3 years before there is any kind of long term settlement on this issue. Surely, with all the resources of the government, it must have come up with some kind of interim measure rather than the ones that the parliamentary secretary offered.
He mentioned litigation, a unified position across the provinces and consumer advocacy but his government must be able to offer Canadians watching today more of a solution than just waiting for the trade resolutions to work themselves out. Workers who are losing their jobs across British Columbia and across the provinces need help in the interim. He must be able to give us more than what he has given us today.